Book Title: Scientific Secrets of Jainism
Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad
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15. Is There An
Origin Of Life?
From the days when man abandoned the natural life style to adopt the life
style created by himself, man's intellectual power began to develop. Man made life style produced in man a sort of curiosity to know the secrets of life, the secrets of all natural phenomena and the factors controlling them. This curiosity and the needs of the new life style inspired him to make new inventions. That was the beginning of science and its inventions. This curiosity played a very important role in material development in human life.
Formerly, man with his small family lived in forests and lived on fruits etc. of trees growing in forests. In those days no man had any fear from another man or any woman and no woman had any fear from another woman or any man. In fact so much fearlessness prevailed that none was afraid of the so called violent birds and beasts. Man in those days lived unclad but the mutual sexual attraction was not strong. As time passed by, they changed. They found shortage of fruits etc. growing in forests and needs of people were not fulfilled. From those days, people began to quarrel, fight and attack. All struggled for their existence. Thus emerged a new life-style and a new social order. Gradually, people adopted the new social order. Man began to think of the natural and artificial phenomena occurring around him. That precisely was the beginning of man-made science, which has been continuously progressing.
Thus man's power of thinking laid the foundation of science and then man began to think of time of beginning of the universe and the great men of succeeding ages, with their powers of knowledge and logic, found answers to this and tried to explain them to other people of society. Religious leaders, original founders of various religions, saviours of religions, great men who redeemed religion made their best efforts and contributed to the solution of problem regarding to the origin of the universe and life. Bhagavān Mahāvīra presented a unique theory and solved many problems related to the universe. Most of the religious leaders believe that the whole universe is without a beginning and is endless. But scientists do not accept it. They believe that
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