Elusive Consciousness

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari, Surendrasingh Pokharana, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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8. DO SPIRITUAL PROCESSES HELP TO REDUCE ENTROPY PRODUCTION IN THE BIOSPHERE:
From this analysis, we find that Jain acharyas and other Indian Rishies and Munies have spiritually ordered mind and if we look at their behavior and daily practices then we find that they consume minimum resources and hence generate least entropy in the environment. As they go to higher and higher stages of evolution of consciousness, their resources consumptions go on reducing. We feel that the various religious and spiritual practices developed by the ancient Indian seers like Yoga, Meditation, Sadhna and others and they all results into an overall decrease in the rate of entropy production of this biosphere. Although the processes are initiated at an individual level but it expands in the society through the various interlinkages present in the social system. It appears that as the number of persons carrying out these practices increase, the average overall rate of entropy production of this biosphere decreases. In addition this may be accompanied by the appearance of a new kind of order which is being described above and could be linked with an orderly state of consciousness. Therefore there is a need to investigate the different stages of human consciousness which can be in highly ordered states as mentioned in above sections.
9. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION:
This paper critically examine the current problems of the society and their reasons of occurrence. It is argued that modern science, technology and their economic exploitations is the main cause of these problems and can be described in the form of an overall increase in the entropy in the biosphere. It is then mentioned that there are stringent limitations of the modern science and true nature of reality can never be understood through purely scientific approaches. Hence, General Systems Theory is suggested to be a better alternative to search for new ways for improved understanding of reality. This approach results into interesting results which imply. that the spiritual evolution mentioned in Indian philosophy which talks about knowledge and order as criteria of evolution should be examined in a modern perspective. As consciousness is a critical element in this process of evolution, its concept in the Jainism and the modern science are discussed. The recent researches in the field of modern science like possibility of quantum processes in neurophysiology are highlighted. They indicate that Jain concept of evolution is accompanied by an increase in the knowledge and order and reduction in resources utilization. It is also indicated concepts like rebirth, extra sensory perception and theories of pap and punya will be now treated as new frontiers of the modern science with new perspective about science itself. These ideas are quite preliminary
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