Jain Journal 1990 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 35

Omniscience a Fiction or a Fact
G. R. JAIN
Every thought is preceded by material vibrations in the brain. These brain waves are not a myth now, but hard facts of experiment. It has been possible to record them on paper and the records are known as incephalograms. They have been transmitted across the Atlantic and received at the other end (a sort of telepathic transmission with the help of machines). In fact they are electro-magnetic waves of ultra-ultra short wave lengths. When the brain acting like a miniature radio-receiver is properly tuned, the waves from outside are received in. In fact a thought can be looked upon as influx of foreign energy into the soul. Prof. Albert Einstein astounded the world by his great discovery that energy is matter and matter is energy. Every thought, therefore, which precedes our action, involves coming in of some foreign matter unto the soul. The Jaina theory of karmas which postulates the association of subtle matter with the soul at every moment of our life, and which has been given the name karma vargaṇā and is included amongst the six divisions into which matter has been divided under the name suksma.
Souls are divided into two categories, mundane and pure. A mundane soul is closely associated with matter which flows in as a result of our thoughts and consequent actions. As every kind of matter is subject in Newtonian forces of gravitation, the poor mundane soul stands no chances of flying away from the grip of the Universe which is filled with matter on all its corners. But when this association with karmic matter is annihilated, the soul begins its upward journey like a hydrogen balloon. Hydrogen atom is the lightest among matter and, therefore a hydrogen balloon would go up as far as meets the hydrogen layer of the upper atmosphere provided it is prevented from bursting by the rays of the sun. Soul is lighter still, in fact, it is the lightest we can think of, because it is non-material and rises to the top of the universe beyond which there is no medium of motion.
Pure soul is Effulgence Divine in which the consciousness inheres although the science of today is trying to search consciousness in the protein molecule. If some day the biologists succeed in manufacturing the protoplasm, the philosophers will have to discard the soul and think