Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhyaprajnapti Sutra Part 01 Sthanakvasi

Author(s): Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

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41414141414141414141414141414 415 416 417 414 45 46 45 44 45 46 47 46 45 46 47 464 ten sanjnas (kinds of feeling and awareness)--food, fear, sex, possessiveness, anger, conceit, deceit, greed, general and universal. As regards plant life, science had to accept all these sanjnas.
Famous Indian scientist Shri Jagadish Chandra Basu had proved by his experiments that plants are sensitive to anger and love. At expression of love a plant blossoms and at expression of hate it withers. These experiments by J. C. Basu have since been accepted by the scientific world. In this Agam plant life forms are said to have ten sanjnas. Endowed with these ten attributes plants have the same but indistinct behaviour that the humans display distinctly.
In the same way earth too has life force. Practitioners of nature cure and scientists are heading towards this possibility. Famous geologist Francis writes in his famous travelogue, 'Ten Years Under Earth', about ten year long difficult geological journey-"During my numerous journeys I have come across many such facets of earth that go against modern physics. Those facets cannot be explained on the basis of established scientific theories of the modern world.” In the end he explicitly states-“So, is the imagination about the life force in earth by the ancient seers true ?"
In the same way Jain philosophy accepts the existence of innumerable living beings in a single drop of water. Modern scientists have accepted the existence of innumerable minute organism in a drop of water after seeing it under a microscope. Jain biology is far advanced than this.
After numerous experiments modern scientists have also confirmed the Jain principle that matter is never destroyed, it just gets transformed.
Bhagavan Mahavir's statement in Bhagavati Sutra about unlimited energy of matter--specific matter particles like Taijas pudgals contain enough energy to destroy sixteen states like Anga, Banga and Kalinga- finds complete acceptance in modern science.
In the same way pregnancy without intercourse, transplantation of fetus and other hundreds of such topics that are beyond normal comprehension are included in this Agam. However, most of these have been affirmed by modern science through new research and experiments. It is hoped that sooner or later the remaining concepts will also find acceptance.
In this Agam the occupied space (Lok), constituted of six entities, is said to be without a beginning as well as eternal. In its exploration of the time of the birth of this universe modern science has also arrived at the point already stated in Jain philosophy. J. B. H. Haldane, the famous scientist, says--"In my view the universe has no beginning.”
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