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I am the Soul
As mentioned earlier, it is possible to obtain the apparatus in which an atma could come and be produced. If the birth has to be in the form of a human, then the apparatus required is the mother's womb, semen and ova - jiva may take birth in them. But there cannot be a new production of chetan from jada (animate from inanimate). Today science has made the 'robot', where all the organs and limbs of a human were placed. It was made auto-mobile. It was made to work much more than a human body. But there was one shortcoming left over - life could not be placed in it! Even as the inanimate is eternal in nature in its atomic form, science could change its form, but it can not only not create life but it is incapable of even changing its form.
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Brothers! Just consider. In your own houses there are innumerable small or big inanimate things. Have your ever seen any such inanimate thing coming to life and moving-walkingtalking like you? Of course, in certain things insects or life may be born, but that is because a conducive situation has been found, as explained earlier. But you have never heard of your cupboard, lying for years at home, taking the form of a human or some such life.
In the same way, it is never noticed that chetan - animate has itself got converted to inanimate. Yes it does seem, when a human or some animal, bird or insect dies and its body is lying about, that some time back this was alive and moving and now it has become inanimate. But it is not so. It has not become inanimate, it has remained inanimate. The life animate that was in it has left. That is why the inanimate body is lying there. The animate and the inanimate have separated.
Broadly speaking the inanimate substance can be made out of the joining of atoms. But the basic form of the inanimate is the micro atom. Science has made many discoveries, it has measured the strengths of the inanimate and used them, but it has not been able to create a single atom. It just cannot. Science
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