Jain Darshan aur Sanskruti Parishad

SR No.: 010092
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Banthia
Publisher: Mohanlal Banthiya
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 263
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 9 MB

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that in this process there is no speciality whatsoever of the grass. But that on account of its own specific characteristic, the consciousness perceives the grass as 'green'. But such a view does not hold good either on the basis of common sense logic or the present day scientific theory of colourphenomenon. It is contradictory to the fundamental assertion of the Jain Metaphysics too.
Our common sense rationality compels us to believe that ever in the absence of any percipient (consciousness) the grass will ever remain green.
Secondly, the modern Science explains the phenomenon of colour on the basis of the wave-theory, It is an undoubtedly proved fact of science that the whole visible spectrum is contained in the ordinary white light from the sun. When the light waves from the sun pass through any material object, all wave-lengths except a particular one, are absorbed by the object on account of same specific charge of its own. Thus, when the light-waves pass through the grass, the grass absorbes all wave lengths except one representing the green colour, due to its own specific objective property. Consequently, the only wave length representing green colour reaches our eyes, it stimulates optic equipment and we see the grass as 'green'. Thus, on the basis of scientific theory too, it becomes clear that the perception of grass (or rose as red), is not dependent upon the consciousness but on the fact as to which wave length is not absorbed by the object, and this, in turn, is decided by the structure of the object-some objective pecularity of the object itself. Hence we can say that the colour of an object is contained in its own nature, or more strictly, colour is an objective attribute of the matter. Thus, Eddington's contention that consciousness spins the colour, is completely blown into smithereens on the basis of the scientific theory itself.
Lastly, we examine the above view of Eddington in the light of Jain metaphysics. The Jain metaphysics clearly states that all the four properties of matter are objectively possessed by each atom. It is also asserted by the Jain metaphysics that in the grass there exist atoms of all the five colours, and