Book Title: Jains Through Time
Author(s): Shilapi Sadhvi
Publisher: Veerayatan

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________________ The Jains through Time 232 has degenerated into idolatry, obscurantism, understanding. Until a few hundred years blind faith and hypocrisy. People started ago, scientists believed the earth was only a saying that whoever is the most religious is few thousand years old. Now they know it sure to be the biggest hypocrite. By not to be billions of years old. In this way using our intelligence and our judgement science proceeds by research and we turn our faces away from reality, allowing experimental testing. It never proclaims hypocrisy to flourish under the umbrella of anything as the final truth. When we religion. Religion is not only about become dogmatic or say that any research or incantations, rituals, gods and heavenly discovery is indisputable, then we are being forces. We get into difficulty when we forget unscientific. The fact is that science is our own powers and place all our faith in moving away from the physical world such notions. That's when problems arise towards a view more compatible with and hypocrisy flourishes. The true form of spiritual science. It seems that physics is religion lies in worship, discrimination, moving into metaphysics. Physics Professor empathy, faith, inner tranquillity, truth, Fritof Capra of California University, whose simplicity and mutual help. Man's hidden popular writings have done much to show qualities and potential powers come to light the curious affinity between the world-view when his inner virtues are developed. This is of quantum mechanics and that of the the domain of religion. No external power ancient philosophies of the East, has invited or ritual is required to bring it about. physicists to enter the arena of spiritual science. He says, “In penetrating nature's Science itself has begun to accept that these secrets we have so far only used logic and forces exist. The beauty of science is that it deduction. Changing circumstances make it tries to discover the truth but does not necessary to try a new paradigm, the path of become pedantic about its answers. Science intuition. So far scientists have ignored has changed thousands of its past beliefs intuition. The time has come for it to be because fresh observations bring new restored to a place of honour." Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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