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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Mantra, the picture of Tirthankar, the photograph of the Rishabhadeva statue, the photograph of the Amalner Temple, the short printed explana. tion, the New Year's greeting, the article on Indus Civilization Jainism by Professor Tiwari, your written explanation of the mantra, Sri Mafatlal Sanghavi's typewritten explanation of it, and the Gujarati pamphlet, by Kamalaprasad Jain. This last I cannot read, nor can any of my friends, I can certainly learn to pronounce the mantra very quickly.
I am sure that you appreciate how deeply grateful I am to you, who have already contributed so much to my intellectual advancement, for this concern for my spiritual advancement and for the time and care which you have devoted in preparing the mantra and these explanations for me. I am especially encouraged by your explanation that, although the full power of the mantra becomes manifest only after prolonged meditation on it, its power for purifying the heart is experienced very soon. I thank you very much, and request you to thank Sri Sangh for me also.
I take it that this is a universal mantra adapted to the needs of all persons, and that I may teach it to my children also. It might even be more profitable to them, as my children are more advanced spiritually than I am,
In teaching a course on philosophy of Science this year I have been impressed by the way in which contemporary physical theory, especially in optics-and nuclear physics, constantly reverts to the apparent absurdity of the phenomena, that is, the failure of the phenomena to be describable in the terms of ordinary logic. The undulatory theory of light, for example, is somehow alternatively both true and false. The rnotion of small particles, according to Heisenberg's principle is essentially indeterminate. These views cannot be expressed in accord with ordinary logic, where everything must be either true or false. They remind me strongly, however, of the Anekantavada logic. I wonder whether any attempt has been made to apply Anekantavada to modern physics. It strikes me that this might be a very fruitful project for a person sufficiently competent in both disciplines, and I wonder what you think of this suggestion.
Sd/- George Buroh.
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