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THE ONE WHO KNOWS THE ONE, KNOWS ALL
I've heard it, the Blessed one, that the Lord Mahavir has said: "The One Who knows The One, Knows All and The One Who knows all, Knows the
one".
HH Muni Roop Chandra
Jain Ashram Roop Vihar, Ring Road, Opp. Saray Kale Khan
New Delhi, 110013
Muni Roop Chandraji Maharaj
was initiated under the Acharya Tulsi Sangh.
He is the founder of 'Nav Terah Panth' and 'Manav Mandir Mission'
and has authored over 15 books. He is a poet, writer and philosopher,
and has walked over 35,000 miles bare foot in India and Nepal.
What's this world like? From time immemorial the people have been trying to know the outside world. From the dust particles to the Mountains, from the water-drop to the ocean, from the earth to the solar system, and beyond that the stellar system and beyond that the milky ways and the stars. Man has been curious to know them and have tried to work out a solution. Physics discovered 'atom' after having traversed through this infinite expanse, even reached the 'waves' and the Sevent' across the ways. Across the events is the one that never happens. Science calls it 'the field'. This infinite region where the events are happening is bound by the inevitable law of cause and effect. And whatever man knows till now by that, that is the ultimate truth of physics. These events have a sequence. There are few equations in this sequence. These equations can be expressed through mathematical symbols. No difference is perceivable between the events and that which is happening. The one that is beyond happening can be the background of all events. Events are only possible when something is to happen. So, it is not at all possible to draw out a differentiating line between all that is happening and all that does not happen. The expanse from a particle of sand to the stars has now been limited to that 'One' by knowing whom all other things are known. This is the limit of physics. It knows only qualities and considers these essentials for substance. There can not be substance without qualities and qualities without substance. It has been the assumption till now. These qualities are: weight, color, form, odors etc.
What's the weight of the substance? It is known now what physics defines as weight is the result of gravity. What weights 4 kg? on earth will only weigh 1 kg. on the moon. It is because gravity is four times less there. There is weightlessness in the space where there is no gravity. The cosmonauts have experienced it the first hand. They have, therefore, to use special instruments for physical and mental effects of gravity and have to undergo a specific training. Weight is not at all a quality of substance. Substance has no weight in itself. Weight is the effect of mutual attraction. That weight is of one matter fragment upon another fragment. Even that effect is reciprocal. The earth pulls man and man pulls the earth. It is a different thing that the earth is larger in size. Its gravitational force is higher in total quantity. That is why man can not pull it but it can pull man as a larger magnet pulls the smaller one.
Discovery of atom changed the concept of color and form. With the nucleus even the form disappeared. In this process whatever was obtained could not be called matter according to a conventional definition. The source of matter is that which is not matter. That is only vacuum- 'Utter nothingness'
Jadi Bienna JAINA Convention 2007
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| SR No. | 527529 |
| Book Title | JAINA Convention 2007 07 Edison NJ |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Federation of JAINA |
| Publisher | USA Federation of JAINA |
| Publication Year | 2007 |
| Total Pages | 220 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, USA_Convention JAINA, & USA |
| File Size | 17 MB |