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the day time plants, trees etc. absorb carbon-dioxide and emit oxygen. At night plants, trees etc. absorb oxygen and emit carbon-dioxide. This skows that oxygen has blue molecules and carbon-dioxide has red molecules. And it is a scientifically proved fact that oxygen has energy for vital functions and that is why whoever controls breath or takes deep breaths i.e. Prānāyāma, enjoys good health.
Of course, this is an inference based on the extrasensory perceptions of Shri Dutt and it is in keeping with the contention of Jaina philosophy and it is probably nearest to truth. All cannot have such experiences because this is a gift of nature. We should not, therefore, underestimate it.
Shri Dutt proposes to study the body from two view - points - 1. the subtle body and 2. the kārana body. This will make it easy to understand the facts of colours.
According to Jaina scriptures, the body is of five types - 1. the audarika body, 2. the vaikriya body, 3. the ahāraka body, 4, the taijasa body and 5. the karmana body. All these five types of body have been mentioned earlier in the description of the forms of Varganās i.e. grouping of paramānu - units. Since they have a special relevance here, they are mentioned here again. Every living being has at least three bodies. In distinct circumstances, distinguished man have four bodies but never has five bodies at the same time. Generally, the living beings of physical world, namely, earth, fire, water, wind, plants etc. who have only one sense of touch and very small insects, i.e. micro organisms and other creatures which are classified by the Jaina biology into the two-sensed, three-sensed and four-sensed living beings, acquatic living beings such as fishes etc. beasts such as the cow, the horse, the elephant etc., the snake, the squirrel etc. and birds such as the sparrow, the crow, the parrot etc. which are called five - sensed have only three bodies each ; the audarika body, the taijas body and the karmana body. To their vaikriya body, they can give any form or shape, small or big. In the sense of modern science and scientists, it is called the desire body. Of all the living beings in the whole universe, only man can make a vaikriya body i.e. desire body, if he performs certain special type of knowledge, besides the audarika body of bones, flesh and skin, that is visible to naked eyes. But never can be simultaniously make both the types of body - the vakriya body and the aharika body. 14
Of the five types of body, the types of body intended to be described here are the taijas body and the karmana body. All living beings in the whole universe certainly have these two types of body. Of course, the living being who having emancipated from the bondage of all the karmic particles has attained
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