Glory Of Jainism

SR No.: 269278
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Total Pages: 39
Language: English
Classification: Article
File Size: 6 MB

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- 14 remained unmoved and unperturbed claiming and asserting that all material objects existing in the entire cosmos of whatever colour, smell, taste and touch in their conposition originated from the one and the same type of atom. But the difference was due to the uniting and disuniting the number of atoms in the same way in which sugar toys of various types and shapes were moulded from the cane. juice by fermentation in the heat. All the objects in the entire universe are similarly created from the one and the same atom. According to the Jaina metaphysical theory, the atoms are invisible to the naked eye. A great philosopher has declared that the credit for expounding the accurate theory of the atom should go only to the Jaina philosophers. It is believed these days that the atomic theory was first discovered by Democritus about two thousand years ago. In India Rishi Kanad placed this theory in his philosophy some centuries ago, but the Jaina thinkers in accordance with the doctrines of their ancient agamas have been claiming that the atomic theory formula ted by Democritus, Kanad and modern scientists stand . still incomplete and the atom known to modern science is supposed to be still a compound of innumerable, invisible and subtle st particles. John Dalton accepts that the atom is indivisible, but in accordance with the Jaina theory, the atom discovered by modern science is divisble and it is only a molecule according to the Jaina concept, because Jainologists assert that the atom is not perceptible to the naked eye, and could be discernible only to the inner vision of the Omicient or the Clairvoyant. In . ..15. ;