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matter etc. means removal of our awareness from the matter around us. The too much emphasis on celibacy also appers to be related with this delocalisation. In this case if a person is married his (her) awareness is mainly confined to his wife (husband) and his (her) family and its welfare. This requires a sort of confinement of awareness to a limited space-time structure. This confinement appears to be nothing but bondage of our awareness in the terminology of the Jainas. As this confinement of our awareness is possible only because of material particles therefore karmas are held responsible for this bondage. The whole theory appears to be quite genuine if we consider an example of a child who does not have past memory and is also free from any problem of adaptation, he therefore has relatively more awareness of his surroundings than an elder person who has a great deal of past memory and must have adapted to some fixed set of conditions.
Pokharna
As far as the problem of nonviolence is concerned, it is now I clear that since the soul is present among all living beings, there should be an effective addition and positive feedback towards the direction of achieving the highest state of perfection of soul if nonviolence is seriously practiced.
6.0 EXPERIMENTS OF TAYLOR AND BALANOVSKII
Finally we now come to discuss the theory of knowledge in the light of beautiful experiments conducted by Taylor and Balanovskii to check whether electromagnetism is involved in the transfer of paranormal11 information.12 It will be shown that their conclusion about noninvolvement of electromagnetism in the extra sensory perception = ESP phenomena does not contradict the claims of ancient Jainas that microscopic particles of matter can be perceived through ESP.
According to Taylor and Balanovskii, if we believe that some radar like action is involved in the transfer of ESP phenomena then it would mean that our body emits some radiations towards a target which are reflected back from the target and received back by our brain and is decoded in it in some way and hence the
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