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World as seen by saints and Scientists*
Be he a Jain aspirant achieving self-realisation by experiencing communion with the Lord Arihanta, or a Buddhist seeker attaining Nibbanic state (nirvana), or a self-realised Hindu adept undergoing spiritual rebirth, all experience a seachange in their outlook and philosophy of life. Their outlook towards life differs from that of those having no experience of self-realisation. This is so because their first hand experience reveals the fact that the world - including one's physical body too - is, in fact, an illusion. Modern atomic scientist's vision of the world is also somewhat similar in principle.
Modern atomic science reiterating the sayings of the mystic savants :
Let us observe how closely the picture of the physical world presented by modern science resembles that visualised by the selfrealised. The savants who authored the scriptures have stated that the spiritual adept absorbed in self-knowledge sees the whole material world - macrocosm - as unsubstantial as a magical conjuration. 50
Normally, we believe / experience that physical things which we daily encounter in life - chair, table, house, land,
* A part of the fourth chapter from the author's another Gujarati book 'Atmagnan ane Sadhnapath' has been extrapolated here as chapter No.8. This will give an overview of the interaction between scinece and spiritualism and its outcome. In addition, it will also give the reader some idea of the highest accomplishment in spiritual field.
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