Atma the Self

Author(s): Punyadarshanvijay
Publisher: Sanmarg Prakashan

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... ĀTMĀ
The Self....
To visualize the immenseness, figures of countless bodies are only possible by simile. Great Spiritual Preceptors have given them in 'Sambodha Sittari'. (a Jaina Scripture) That the area of Jambu Dweep (central world, 320 million miles in diameter) will not be able to accomodate the countless numbers of :
Water-bodies in a drop of water, if enlarged to rapeseed size,
flye.
or Ait-bodies in a flame - area of one grain of rice, if enlarged to poppyseed (Khasakhasa),
or Air-bodies in a breeze-wisp area of a Nima-tree leaf if increased to the size of an egg of a louse,
or Earth-bodies in a clod of earth of the size of a cherry if enlarged to the size of a pigeon. They will overflow. Even though they have only one sense of touch, they have all the five inner-senses (Bhāvēndriya) and innermind (Bhāvamana).
Recent Researches state: 'The theory of stones having memory and wood having life cannot be ignored, Solid State Physicists are now turning more and more to the storage of energy by inorganic material.'
'In fact, the marvel of electronic and semi-conductors had been anticipated by nature in stone itself. In the last decade physicists have acknowledged the varied properties of stones through electron spin resonance. They have also tried to pin-point a sonar trigger.'
The famous geologist Francis, in his celebrated work 'Ten years Under Earth' had observed that the earth has an intense life force which is unthinkable by human mind.' In modern times Klem Vedestar with the help of Galvanometer has irrefutably testified that 'the feelings of pain and pleasure, emotional response and lenity are always there in plants'.
Dr. Jagadisacandra Bosa, India, who in 1902 had successfully and scientifically proved the plant-life conjoin with old Religious Scriptures and that the plants have feelings and emotions.
Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins published in 1973 'The Secret life of plants' which stated :.
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