Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP

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PART IV
Consciousness and Liberation
So we see that all kinds of changes keep taking place inside this body all the time and produce various perceived or unperceived changes and effects of various durations and intensities.
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If something, unsuitable or harmful to the system, is taken they create certain changes in such a way that the effects are felt at once. Take for example any medicine, alcohol or chloroform. If sulphuric or nitric acid is applied to any metal the metal is consumed. This consumption of metal does not mean that it has vanished but speaking scientifically a third substance is produced or generated due to the active reaction of the acid on the metal. Yet in still stricter scientific term it is said that the internal structure of the molecules of the two reacting substances have changed which means a reorientation of "ions" inside the molecules-which finally changes the whole