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I am the Soul whatever number of inanimate things getting together cannot result in creation of life. In a Laboratory many chemicals can be put together to form another compound that is, a substance changes form. But it has never been heard that science had put together certain things and created life from it.
Why! Even if you consider the tube-baby, then life appears and stabilises in it only when semen and ova are brought together by creating the same situation as is required for the jiva to appear in the mother's womb.
Life cannot be created by somebody's making. A small seed grows into a banyan tree. But if equipment invented by science were to be buried in soil for thousands of years, they would turn to dust, but there could never be a fraction of a sprout in them. Thus jiva cannot be created through sunyog or interaction.
Of course, a situation conducive for the arrival of the atma may be readied. Wherein the atma makes an entry. Just as in the faeces and urine that is discarded from the human body, within 48 minutes, life begins to appear. That is, the situation becomes conducive for 14 types of summurchchim jivas to be born in, and hence the moment a sanyog is available these jivas are born in it and also die in it. But it is not that a new atma is created out of such sanyog.
Indeed the jiva can know of all these sanyogs. It can also know of their transformation. But itself cannot be created out any sort of sanyog. This is the proof of its eternal nature. In this regard Srimadji says –
जडथी चेतन ऊपजे, चेतनथी जड थाय;
patywa olsa, Radia M4 .....84 Never until now has anybody experienced that a mixing of several inanimate things has led to the creation of an animate and in the same way an inanimate out of the animate.
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