Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

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

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recorded evidence by way of crescograph that plants also register the sensations of pain or pleasure just like us humans. It was considered a noteworthy achievement in the world of science and brought him international recognition. The above discovery that astonished the intellectualistic western world, was common knowledge to even an uneducated Jain, because the mystic seers like Lord Mahavir had asserted this truth about presence of life in plants and their extreme sensitivity (human touch could also be painful), twentyfive hundred years ago. In Jain families even babes in arms are also aware of this notion as a matter of course.
The fact that such profound mysteries of Nature were fathomed by the enlightened without any help of external aid or equipment is now being reaffirmed with greater conviction through evidence provided by modern science itself. A keenly observant and alert mind can pick up evidence of this truth from his day-to-day life without going into the details of scientific research.
Now-a-days, in crime detection work, specially trained dog-squads are employed by the police. These dogs can pick up the trail of the fugitive by his body odour, a trace of which can by sampled by the dogs from any object that has remained in contact with the subject for some time e.g. clothes, footwear or personal belongings. Their exceptionally well-developed olfactory sense registers it and using it as a reference, they can trace the trail upto twelve or sometimes twentyfour hours later. Thus, if the particles signifying one's presence could be detected upto an interval of 12 to 24 hours after one has merely passed through a place, it is not too difficult to understand that at the site where one has sat for some time, the concentration of one's tracer element is bound to be higher
which could prove disturbing to the nervous system of someone - belonging to the opposite sex when that person occupies that
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