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
They are thieves and murderers. They commit many sins, hunt birds and beasts and kill deer and pigs.
Men with the Nişāda note are quarrelsome. They are bearers of burden, labourers and messengers. 25"
As shown above, these seven musical notes influence the body and the mind of men. Moreover, they indicate the nature and the fate of men. If efforts are made, these notes can change the fate of men.
We see in our everyday life that when a small child is weeping, the mother sings a sweet lullaby and swings the child and the child soon stops weeping and goes to sleep. Though the child does not know sounds but the pause and pleasingness of sound can make the child silent and send it to sleep.
Today new experiments are made in therapeutics all over the world. As a result, various therapies have come into existence in the world. Among them allopathy, the modern medical science and Ayurvēda, the ancient Hindu system of medicine are very famous. Moreover, some other new therapies have been found out. Of course, the roots of the so called new therapies lie in the ancient literary traditions e.g. 1. the acupuncture therapy, 2. the acupressure therapy, 3. the magnetic therapy, 4. the colour therapy, 5. the pyramid therapy.
To these various therapies a new therapy, the music therapy is added. Of course, this is not a new therapy in India. On the basis of practical experimentation, western scientists have only substantiated this therapy.
For music therapy, they have mainly relied on the Sāmavēda, the third Vēda and the Gāndharvavēda, the musical science, among the four Vēdas of ancient India. There is 70% water in our body and the modern science also agrees that water and the motion of the moon have a special kind of relation and that is the reason why there is flood tide in the sea on the full moon day and the last day of the dark half of every lunar month. Indian astronomers, therefore, attach greater importance to the moon than the Sun. And they have prepared the Indian calendar (Pancānga) on the basis of the
ne moon. Of course, the motion of the Sun is also taken into consideration here but it has no special importance. But western astronomers have attached importance only to the motion of the Sun in preparing the solar calendar.