Scientific Secrets of Jainism

Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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Scientific Secrets of Jainism
7. The Mano Vargaņā.
The minds of all gross five-sensed living beings (celestial, human, hellish and animals) are made of this type of paramānu-units (Vargaņā). Moreover they are used in various processes of thinking.
8. The Kārmana Varganā.
The paramāņu-units of this type of Vargaņā get transformed as auspicious or inauspicious karma and stick to the soul. They make a special type of subtle body named the Kārmaņa body.
In both of his articles, Sri Ashok Kumar Dutt shows that the groups of coloured energy particles are chiefly of the three colours - red, yellow and blue. But in the description of the element pudgala i.e. matter, Jain philosophers show that they have five colours - white, red, yellow, blue and black. As far as drawing is concerned, there are only three colours, red, yellow and blue. The rest of the colours are made by mixing these colours. In the printing of coloured pictures, red, yellow, blue and black colours are used.
There are two types of smell : 1. good smell and 2. bad smell.
There are five types of taste : 1. bitter, 2. pungent, 3. astringent, 4. sour, 5. sweet. The saltish taste is not taken into account here but it is accepted as sixth taste in other Jain works.
There are eight types of touch : 1. heavy, 2. light, 3. soft, 4. hard, 5. cold, 6. hot, 7. smooth, Snigdha Ate 8. rough Rukșa Fe 10
A single solitary atom has two types of touch : 1.cold or hot and 2. smooth or rough (Snigdha para or Ruksa 5a). Some paramāņu-units made of infinite atoms have sometimes four touches. Some have all the eight touches. The first four of the eight types of Varganās shown above have all the eight types of touch. The last four Vargaņās of the eight types of Vargaņās shown above, have four types of touch.
Having got this background information of the pudgala (matter) we, shall now analyse the experiences or extrasensory perceptions of Sri Dutt.
Chiefly blue particles seem to emerge from the sound of a conch-shell. It is customary to make sound of a conch- shell at the time of evening prayer in Hindu temples. It is said that the sound of a conch-shell removes turbidity/