Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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Science as my life mission
'One who desires to carry out a comparative study of these two subjects, has to study each one more systematically and authentically than one who wants to be a mere commentator. The amount of effort, put in by me in writing the seven essays, "Philosophy and Science", "Syadvad and Relativity”, "Theory of Atom," "Essence of Soul", "Rotation of Earth", Ether and "Dharma and Ether" could seldom be exceeded by the effort required by one to write seven different thesis separately on each subject My aim was to make a complete and elaborate study of each subject before writing anything about it In View of the human limitations, I can hardly take any pride on the extent of success in attaining my goal.
I cannot, but take this opportunity to express my gratitude to those English and Hindi authors whose books have been useful to me in my work In particular I obtained great support from Prof C. L Jam, MSc. Just when I had completed most of the chapters of my book, I came across his book, "Cosomology Old and New" accidently I was delighted to find that some body else had also chosen the same subJects for commenting and in the same order as I I derived great inspiration from this book in my work and found many novel and new angles of vision
And how can I forget the kind indulgence of those scientists who have always made it a point to consider my studies and likings as their own duty and