Jaina World of Non Living

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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The Jaina world of Non-living
parts are confirming improving the destruction-cum-subsidence of different karmas.
11. Moreover, there are conflicting reports about the conclusions based on studies on life after death or transmigration and parapsychological phenomena which may have an inkling about separate existence of the soul entity. However, Karl Sagan explains these phenomena in terms of accurate recollection of four-stage parinatal experience again moving towards non-living origin of the living. However, the cloning experiments prove the living origin of the living. 12. The modern man is, thus, a little bit in dilemma whether the religious statements should be taken as final in view of verifiable scientific conclusions of the day.
13. Similar is the case with physical mind (brain) and psychical mind in semi-aphorism 5.3 above. The current researches indicate most probably the non-living nature of matter residing in physical brain. This is confirmed by effects of alcohol and medical treatments in mental disordors. It may be called living only formally being a substrate. (Times of India, 19.9.99).
According to Scientific American (Dec. 1999, Damasio), mind is based on quantum-level phenomena occurring in the microtubules. It is biological and has a multiple structural level. It is the "movie-in-thebrain" which has an identifiable neural basis. The movie creates the "seen" and the 'seer'. It is the complex brain structure which generates the mind which is biological phenomena rather then a mistery. The biological system of mind will have a molecular structure which is under research. 14. The cellular origin of life also points in the same direction. However, how the first cell was formed is the basic point. 15. The Svetambara version has an aphorism 5.2 which represents a combined form of Rājvārtikās aphorisms 5.2 and 5.3.
The next aphorism 5.4 describes some similar specific properties of the realities:
Nitya - avashitāni - arūpāņi 5.4
The above mentioned (five) realities are eternal, immutable (fixed in number) and formless (devoid of colour, shape etc.) 5.4
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