Scientific Secrets of Jainism

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

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Is There An Origin Of Life?
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souls that take birth, die, live and breathe together. They are born in birthplaces of fourteen hundred thousand types. Two-sensed, three-sensed and four-sensed living beings are born in birth-places of two hundred thousand types each. Celestial, hellish and Tiryanca (living beings other than celestial, human and hellish beings) having five-senses are born in birth-places of four hundred thousand types each. Human beings are born in birth-places of fourteen hundred thousand types. Thus in the living world, there are eighty four hundred thousand types of birth-places for all types of living beings. Now we are thinking of asexual birth and asexual living beings. i.e. Sammūrcchima Janma and types of sammūrcchima living beings.
Sammūrochima birth is birth without male-female copulation. Sammūrochima birth takes place amongst one-sensed (non-movin beings and moving beings i.e. two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed, Tiryanca i.e. beasts and birds having five senses and also human beings (see: the Tattvārtha Sūtra, ch-2, Sūtras-32, 33, 34, 35 and 36). All sammūrcchima human beings are born in fourteen types of impurities or excretion. The impurities are as under: (1) faeces (2) urine (3) mucus (4) mucus (5) vomit (6) bile (7) pus (8) blood and flesh (9) semen (10) wetted particles of dried up semen (11) dead body (12) woman-man copulation (13) the city gutter and (14) all impure places. The sammūrcchima type of living organisms among the five non-moving , two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed
d beasts and birds i.e. Tiryanca having five senses, living organisms can take birth at any time and place. Some of them need faeces, urine etc of their own species. Here the cosmozoic theory and the theory of spontaneous generation are refuted and disproved. Even scientists do not accept these theories
Now let us think what Greek philosophers say. They might have seen living organisms being produced in water from sea-slime under the effect of heat, sun and atmosphere. On seeing the generation of sammūrcchima living organisms in sea water, they perhaps concluded that the living organisms were originated from sea slimes but they could not give reasons for their conclusion because it was only their inference and they were quite ignorant of the real fact.
Francesco Redi, the Italian physicist, performed an experiment. He took two jars. In both the jars, he put flesh and fishes. He closed one jar in an air