Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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stop seeing things at the same time? The eye as an organ of sight is still good enough to transmit light and can be successfully used as transplant material for cornea-grafting to function well in another living body. As a peripheral organ, the eye remains the same in both instances, then why this difference ? In the dead body the eye does not see, or in other words, when the agency that perceived the sensation of vision is no more, the eye fails to see; where this perceptive, conscious agency - soul - is present, the same eye can take in the whole scenario unfolded before it with full details of contour and splendour of colour. Does it not prove that the one who perceives through the eye is other than the senseorgan itself ? And that the eye itself is only an instrument for the real 'observer'?
Line of demarcation between life and death :
Dr. Raynor Johnson, the well-known physicist at Queen's college, Melbourne University, admitting the failure on the part of science to comprehend the nature of the principle of life, writes,
Physics and chemistry applied in the biological field have had their successes on their own level and have given us bio-physics and biochemistry, but on the phenomenon most characteristic of Life they have thrown no explanatory light ... Reason has had remarkable success in formulating relationships between physically observed quantities, of this success the edifice of modern science is the evidence. To the degree, however, in which reason has been applied beyond the field of physics and chemistry to that of biological enquiry, its success has been less spectacular, and this is because a new element, Life is now involved. Life I shall regard as a state of organic association of mind with matter; dissolve this association and the organism
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