Book Title: Jainism by Vividus
Author(s): Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada

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________________ regulates its temperature, digests, focuses attention and how its nervous circuits carry out their integrative functions, the most amazing being the one of embryogenesis-the formation and development of the embryo which involves an orderly series of processes through which cells specialize to form different tissues and organs of the adult body. In homeopathy' yet another system of health care where each individual is deemed to have in the body's electromagnetic field a unique pattern of vibrations with a specific rate of vibration, any external or internal stimulii affecting such a rate causing symptoms to arise of a balance or imbalance, pain or pleasure etc., in the physical, emotional, or mental state and where the remedy provided consists of releasing the energy to match this pattern and resonate with it inducing the process of healing what exactly resonates and how exactly the resonance is brought about is still not known. It is only very recently that the latest developments in 'Consciousness Research', psychotherapy and transpersonal psychology have stimulated Scientists' interest in Eastern Systems of thought generally and particularly those of india Jainism not excluded, The next Ajiva substance in 'Dharma', an objective force, some kind of energy if you will, which helps all things and beings in their motion. Itself remaining passive and continuous and pervaiding through-out the finite universe as a single eternal sudstance, it only is a medium for motion just like water to fish and other beings which cannot move without water. The third Ajiva substance is named 'Adharma' which similarly is a medium for rest for all things and being in the universe. It is also non-living, formless, inactive, continuous, eternal, non-atomic, non-discrete, co-extensive with finite space. in scientific terms it is bolh gravitation and electromagnetism, a binding force responsible for the stable universe of both 86

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