Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

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

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have remained beyond the reach of conventional science.
The genuine yogis with such extraordinary power prefer to keep themselves away from the limelight. It is very difficult to induce them to come out of their self-imposed shell of seclusion and meditative solitude. A few belonging to mediocrity could sometimes be enticed to condescend and play to the gallery. Reports of such authentic incidences are very rare; nevertheless, these rare ones too are quite a revelation by themselves.
Transcendental existence :
In a victim of fatal heart attack, the heartbeat ceases completely, so also is the case in a person inducing a state of 'suspended animation' by yogic practice. Yet, the former has to be declared irreversibly dead, while the latter revives himself at will. Why this difference? In suspended animation the heart-beat comes to a standstill, yet the yogi remains alive, and although the vital signs indicating life i.e. heartbeat, respiratory excursions, blood circulation etc. remain suspended in such a trance, the body does not disintegrate; at its scheduled time fixed and pre-planned before entering into such a state the yogi brings his body, which for all practical purposes and by known physiological parameters can be considered dead, back to life. The dead body of a heart failure victim if left to itself, will begin to undergo decomposition, while the yogi's body in trance does not show any such tendency despite remaining 'suspended' for several days. Why doesn't life perish in suspended animation where all vital functions considered absolutely essential for sustaining the vital spark, remain in abeyance for considerable length of time ?
To any rationally thinking man, these points provide sufficiently convincing evidence of the fact that the vital principle that inhabits the body is certainly not a product of body's metabolic activity nor of the chemical interactions going on at cellular or organic level in the body.
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