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ed! They had no need of any instrument or apparatus to know that. They could tell that by their omniscient knowledge.
Formerly the scientists were of the view that in the space of the point of a needle there could remain hundreds of ultimate atoms, but now the same scientists by means of very powerful microscopes state that in the same space even millions of such ultimate atoms can remain. But our omniscient saints have stated that in the same space of a needle's point infinitely infinite number of ultimate atoms and lives etc. can exist. Jain scriptures point out that the entire space is studded with minute organisms or lives. The same proposition is now accepted by the modern scientists. The scientists have also discovered that the smallest organism in "thexus" and in spite of a lac of such organisms taking their seat on a needle point there is no overcrowding and they sit there at ease.
As the scientists are inventing better and improved instruments and apparatus they go on advancing in their researches and modify their former conclusions every now and then. This is also unproper. How can an Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
