Jainism Eternal and Universal Path for Enlightenment

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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and used the Chinese concept of Yin and Yang (Fig. 7.3), which are both opposite but exist together and are required for sake of completeness. This is easily understood in the framework of Anekintavid(Chapter 3) which accepts that opposites and extremes allow us to learn the true nature of reality. As propounded in Jainism, reality can manifest different attributes at different times. It may be noted that, in contrast, Buddhism avoided extremes and Buddha favoured the path of the 'Golden Mean' to reconcile contradictory views. This is a fundamental difference between Jainism and Buddhist approach, but we will not go into this aspect here. Complementarity thus became the corner stone of quantum behavior. Principle of Symmetry:
Nature loves symmetry. Symmetry has been the backbone of understanding nature. The life forms, galaxies, planets, trees, minerals, molecules, atoms etc are all symmetrical. There are many forms of symmetry. Left and right symmetry, mirror symmetry, time symmetry and so on. The conservation laws, on which both classical and quantum physics are based are an outcome of the symmetry principle. Elements (Mendeleeve's Periodic Table of elements) are arranged in eight fold symmetry. The 118 elements can be arranged in the form of octets, their properties repeat after every eighth member and so are the elementary particles. In fact, symmetry principle has been used as a powerful tool to predict the existence of many unknown particles by Gellmann, a Nobel Laureate and a profound thinker. He arranged the elementary particles in "eightfold way" and was eventually able to predict and discover quarks, the smallest constituents of matter known to day. It is known now that elementary particles (called hadrons) can be organized in octets (8) and decuplets (10) whereas leptons in nonets (9). The universe itself is known to be formed by supersymmetry.
Some times symmetry is also violated. Parity, an attribute of a nucleus, for example, is a mirror symmetry which is found to be violated in certain reactions. Thus existence of symmetry and its violation, both are of fundamental importance in understanding the nature of the basic processes governing the behaviour of fundamental particles. Uncertainty principle: Applicable mainly to the microworld, the Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to completely quantify all the parameters describing the state of a particle precisely. If measurement of some physical quantity is made, then according to quantum physics, the state of the particle is deemed to have changed instantly into