Scientific Secrets of Jainism

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

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13. The Jambūdvipa Laghusangrahani And
The Modern Science
"Science is a series of approximations to truth; at no stage do we claim to have reached finality; any theory is liable to revision in the light of new facts........ This is both the joy and inspiration of science that there appears to be no end to new knowldge with its interest. Each advance yields a more farreaching and intresting picture of the physical world, while at the same time opening up fresh views in the shape of new problems awaiting solutions."
- A. W. Barton
an's curiosity is irrepressible. It inspried man to make various new in-ventions and thus science came into existence. This curiosity has been inhabiting the human mind since beginningless time. Sometimes it becomes ardent and sometimes it becomes very mild. But when it becomes ardent, it makes efforts to find the secret of the order of the self-governed of the universe. In ord secret, generally two paths are adopted – the path of spirituality and the path of physics or science.
Spirituality being at the basis of Indian civilisation, the ancient sages of all traditions adopted the subjective path of spirituality in order to know and understand the secrets of the universe. In ancient time, the people of India were also very eager to know the secrets of the universe and they were in no way inferior to the people of any other civilisation. Regarding this, the French researcher Mrs. Collet Caillat says in the book, 'The Jain Cosmology':
"The civilisation of India, no less than other civilisations, has not failed to ask questions about the place which man occupies in the world and the location of both the human and the animal kingdoms in space and time. To these questions, for more than 3000 years, the different religious circles and the principal schools of thought in India have striven unceasingly to supply answers." (P.No.9)
Those who want to adopt the path of science, should have necessary qualifications for it. Similarly, those who want to take the path of spirituality, should have certain physical, mental and intellectual merits. If a man without these