1st Jain International Conference

Author(s): Jaina Jito Shrutratnakar
Publisher: Jaina Jito Shrutratnakar

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1 st INTERNATIONAL JAIN
CONFERENCE
darshan, or in Jain scriptures, it immediately becomes clear that there are many laws of nature, principles which govern our existence, doctrines leading to correct world view and observational facts, enunciated more than 2600 years ago, some of which have been rediscovered by western science and credited to European scientists only during the past 400 yeas. Some of these aspects have been summarised in the books 'Scientific
ectives of Jainism' and Jain Philosophy: a Scientific approach to Reality and in chapter 2 therein (Bhandari, 2018). It may be emphasised that the two noble prizes in medicine for the year 2016 and 2017 are based on Jain practices of fasting and solar metabolic cycle. It serves no propose to claim or derive solace in stating that these are Jain concepts but efforts must be made to carry out similar research on other concepts and present it to the world, in their language, with their logic and in their methodology. This is one way the importance of Jain philosophy can be brought on the world stage. Some areas of such research relates to establishing Karma theory, concept of matter and consciousness, apply Jain logic of seven predications (saptabhangi) to day to day problems (instead of binary logic), apply jain concepts in ecology, societal problems and for personal betterment. Techniques of shatavadhan have vast applications in memory improvement and can be beneficial to students and administrators alike. The Jain doctrines of anekantavad, aparigrah, ahimsa, forgiveness and Jain techniques of meditation can bring about peace in the world and mitigate the human misery and save the earth ecosystem from imminent collapse.
The solution thus lies in a high level of scientific research to establish various Jain doctrines, which will convince the educated, academic and learned world community in their substantial truth.