JAINA Convention 2017 07 Edison NJ

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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JAINA CONVENTION 2017
Some scientific facts related to soul, hell, heaven and Narma
Dr. Paras Mal Agrawal
Research Professional (Retd.) and Visiting Professor
Oklahoma State University
Why to bother about soul and spirituality? It is baseless to talk of hell and heaven. Karma theory cannot be acceptable by the modern science. Why not enjoy luxury and comforts provided by modern technology by earning a lot of money which would take care of all issues of health, litigation, social image, etc.?
It is easy to answer such questions. One can say the following: We can see lack of happiness even with rich persons. The dictionary of physics, chemistry, and engineering does not have words such as peace, happiness, love and harmony. The material goods cannot be sufficient to keep one happy for a long. On the other hand the spirituality provides base for moral, ethics, love, fearlessness, happiness and joy even by small things, etc. Further, only the spirituality can provide strength to overcome the fear of death. In short, one needs spirituality.
After reading the above mentioned answer, one may be tempted to ask: Does it mean that we have invented hell to create fear just as a mother invents some BABA for calming down her baby? Do we assume the existence of soul/God and Karmic laws simply to provide the base for morality and overcome the fear of death? Our answer to such questions would be simple. We would like to say that there are many scientific indications that support the existence of (a) soul/God, (b) hell and heaven, (c) validity of Karmic laws such as benefits in prayer/meditation/forgiveness observed by scientific experiments, etc. This article has been written mainly to provide such scientific indications.
Existence of soul/ God Jain preceptors have described six kinds of eternal constituents of the cosmos. One of those six kinds is Jiva Dravya or soul. The soul is considered as eternal, indivisible, invisible, colorless, odorless, tasteless, etc. It cannot be comprehended by any instrument. It is endowed with knowledge and perception. It can neither be created nor destroyed; thus the number of souls in the cosmos remains constant.