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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE
matter, will naturally be absent in ether but the ether will have new and definite characters of its own. non-material ocean of ether."
Prof G. R Jain, MSc. comparing the Dharma Dravya and ether writes in his book 'Cosmology old and new' "Thus it is proved that Science and Jain physics agree absolutely in so far as they call Dharma (Ether) non-material, non-atomic, non-discrete, continuous, co-extensive with space, indivisible and as a necessary medium for motion and one which does not itself move."
The most famous mathematician Prof Albert Einstein drawing a line of demarcation between the inhabited universe and the uninhabited universe writes "The universe is limited, while the non-universe is unlimited Due to limitedness of the universe, matter or energy cannot go out from it outside the universe, the element which is a medium of motion does not exist"
The reader can easily notice the striking similarity between the views of Einstein and Jain philosophy regarding the Dharma Dravya-the medium of motion Hence, it will not be an exaggeration if we make a broad statement that Dharma-Dravya is nothing but Dharma-Dravya
A Concluding View
This comparative discussion about DharmaDravya and Ether brightly elucidates the various
