Jain Journal 1991 10

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

Page 33

Modern Science and the Principle of
Karmons in Jainism
Kanti V. Mardia
1. Karmons and the Karmic Personal Computer
Einstein said that
Religion without science is blind, Science without religion is lame.
Jainism is science with religion. Every aspect of Jainism is based on understanding the cosmos, and the living and non-living entities in it. Modern science is capable of illuminating part of the truth. It explains matter in terms of forces and small particles. Electricity, through electrons, gives rise to light in the room; radio-waves through electric-magnetic forces, result in sound on a loudspeaker and so on. Jainism explains life through interaction of such invisible small particles and the soul. The small particles are Karmic Particles or Karmons and they create a Karmic Force. We keep on absorbing these karmons through activity, and throw some out after their effect have taken place. Thus the soul has a Karmic Computer attached to it. This personal karmic computer keeps all the records-it also dictates some tasks from previous records i.e., past lives. For example, your karmic computer has a message for you to read this issue to think about the Jain religion. This is a good activity and therefore the soul absorbs positive karmons. These positive karmons lead to positive fruition. Also positive action reduces negative karmons and the soul gets purified. Thus the karmic matter and the soul form a type of nuclear reactor say, Karmic Reactor and the purification is like the emission of powerful energy from this karmic reactor.
Jainism uses words like Bandha (karmic fusion), Asrava (karmic force-lines) etc. to describe these activities. Just as the basis of modern physics is its forces, Jainism is based on karmic force. As modern science believes in the interchangeability of matter and energy, in the