JAINA Convention 2017 07 Edison NJ

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

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JAINA CONVENTION 2017
Again it is well known that there are about 1000 Billion galaxies in our universe. Thus there may be about one hundred thousand multiplied by 1000 billion = 100,000,000,000,000,000 (17 zeros after 1) (=1017) planets (beyond our solar system) in our universe that may have intelligent life.
Regarding the nature of living beings, we may refer to one of the topmost scientists of this era in this area, Stephen Hawking. He writes: "Of course, there might be other forms of intelligent life, not dreamed of even by writers of science fiction, .." [9]
This variation in the nature or forms of intelligent living beings in different parts of our universe as spelled out by Stephen Hawking is due to the variation in the design as well as the nature and proportion of chemicals in the body of the living beings. It is a well recognized fact of the science that there is a correlation between the chemicals present in the physical body and the nature of the person. A loving person would have some chemicals in some proportion in the physical body and a person with full of hatred would have similar or different kind of chemicals in different proportion.
If we combine these facts together, we may argue that out of 1017 planets having intelligent life, due to specific chemicals present in the physical bodies there can be some planets where living beings hate each other and inflict pain to each other. One can visualize that out of such a large, rather very large, number of planets the possibility of such planets with mutual hatred is not zero. Would it be a hell? It is for an individual to decide to designate a planet as hell where all beings hate each other and inflict pain on each other. As per the definition of hell given in TattvarthSutra (Sutra 3.3 and 3.5] my answer would be ,yes". In TattvarthSutra Acharya Umaswami writes: Narka nityashubhtar leshya parinam deh vedana vikriyaha. [Sutra 3.3 ), Parasparodirit dukhaha. [Sutra 3.5]
The essence of these Sutras is the following: In hell the living beings always have very bad intentions and give pain to each other. Their bodies are such that they always suffer. Thus there is a strong possibility of some planets where chemicals in the physical bodies of the living beings are such that they have tendency of hating and inflicting pain on others. With such physical bodies it is very likely that they would quarrel, fight, and inflict pain on each other. This would make their life miserable for all the times.
Reverse of this situation where all beings love and mutually help each other, due to the design of the body and the nature of the chemicals present in their physical bodies, may mean heaven. Again, one can visualize that out of such a large number of planets with intelligent life (1017) the possibility of such planets with comforts of heaven is not zero.
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