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These have been analyzed below in the light of the new scientific “theory of water-bodied life without DNA and RNA” and with the relevant understanding of Himsã. While enumerating it in Toto, some of the points, already covered in the aforementioned text, are likely to be repeated.
Let us first test the rationality of new arguments and also examine, whether the old stand has any scientific basis, in the light of the latest theory of water-bodied lives.
It is true that in boiling, the water bodied living beings are killed. One has not saved the living-beings by boiling. Let us understand the real logic behind it.
When we store raw water in the pitcher for our use, the waterbodied living beings (wbl-beings) are afraid of us. This is but natural for any living-being. Our intention was, definitely, to use it. That means it will be killed. (i) In this raw water, the cycle of birth and death will continue till
we consume it. Thus in a way we become the cause for this continuous activity of deaths of innumerable wbl-beings as per
Vyavahar Naya. (ii) If this water is boiled, all these Sthấwarkāya- beings would be
killed once for all. After that no wbl-beings will be born in it throughout its shelf-life. Thus the total deaths are vastly minimized in that water, kept for our consumption. Thus there is a vast difference in the number of living-beings killed, in storing water either in living or in non-living form. In the later process, innumerable wbl-beings are killed only once during 8-10 hours of shelf-life, where as innumerable livingbeings would be killed every moment in the living-water
through out its storage period! There is, of course, no difference in the number of mobile living-beings involved in both forms of water. Q 16:- This is your argument. You cannot feel the actual pain of
suffering or killing. Let us ask the water itself, which is stored in a glass. What does it think? Would it like to request us to be consumed in raw condition or after boiling?
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