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A Mechanistic View of the Jaina
Omniscience (Kevala-Jnana)
S. GAJAPATHI
“In time people who avoid science may even become suspicious or fearful of its supposed mysteries.”
--Bernard Jeffe in Coil of Life
[This essay which is somewhat unconventional from the rest printed in this journal needs a little prelude about its genesis. The idea originated with the author years back when he ran a small spectacle lens manufacturing factory at Madras. To be more useful in his manufacturing profession he went through some books on the theory of light and a few others on the mechanics of lens polishing from whence he slipped into astronomy, atomic physics and some applied sciences and in the light of his scientific as welt as professional knowledge tried to
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