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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three principles here: Anekintvid Mach's principle and Entanglement. Anekintvid is equally applicable to microworld as well as sentient universe. We have already discussed above (as well as in Chapter 3) the similarity of Anekintvidand Sydvd with quantum mechanical concepts in the domain of physical universe. Mach's Principle and Ahimsa
Although Newton's laws of gravitation are well formulated and understood, we do not yet know how the inertial mass of a body comes into existence. Ernst Mach gave some idea on this vital question by proposing that the inertial mass of a body is solely due to interaction of other bodies in the universe (see e.g. Barbour and Pfister, 1995). The implication of Mach's principle is that inertial mass cannot exist in isolation. Now we may ask if this principle can be extended to jiva? We are living in a mutually and totally interactive world and nothing is independent of the other. This is true for life Gjiva) or soul. Life certainly cannot exist in isolation. If all living species, except one, in the universe or even on Earth, or even in a country or even in a society vanish, the last one also will not be able to survive. If all the bacteria in our body die, we will also not survive. Every bacteria, every cell is vital to our existence. We exist because of them. Therefore the life is a result of interdependence (or interaction with other living species. This is the essence of Sunyav?d according to Nagarjuna and implies that one is nothing (Sunya), without life in the rest of the Universe. Zero or Sunya is a complete circle, complete, full and wholesome like the self but, without others, its value is zero. Its value is only contextual. Self is similar. It is complete but it has no value or existence without the rest of the life in the universe. Mach's principle for material world (mass) is the same as Sunyavid in the living world. The principle of non-violence immediately follows from the above discussion since the whole becomes a cause for the existence of a part of it (and vice versa) and both, the whole and the part ,are indistinguishable. In effect, when, one does any harm or kills some body, howsoever primitive, one is actually killing a part of one self, because his very existence is interactive in nature and depends on others. It is like committing suicide to a minor extent. Thus the inertial mass, which is a physical entity and the consciousness, which is a spiritual attribute, are both interactive in nature and their origin is a consequence of interaction with the rest of the Universe. We will return to this argument at the end when we discuss entanglement. Parasparopgrahojiv?nmand entangled souls
Entanglement is superposition of states of two or more particles, taken as one system.Two particles, which are miles apart or in opposite parts of the universe, behave