Scientific Secrets of Jainism

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

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Indian Classical Music And Its Scientific Significance
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The development and other processes in the human body, the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom, depend on the motion of the moon. Its attraction i.e. gravitational force 1 with it, a special note / mode of music also has an influence on our body. Accordingly our ancient musicians have fixed certain periods of time for certain modes of music. Regarding music, Tulasidāsa himself says:
राग हरे सब रोग को, कायर को दे सूर । सुखिया को साधन बने, दुःखिया को दुःख दूर ।। rāga harē saba rõga kā, kāyara kā dē sūra .
sukhiyā kā sādhana banē, duḥkhiyā ko duḥkha dūra ..
[ Modes of music cure all diseases, make cowards brave, supply sources of happiness to the happy and remove miseries of the miserable.127
Every activity of our body is controlled by the brain which is controlled by the mind. Of course, there are some who believe that the brain and the mind are the same. i.e. In every activity of our body, the mind directly or indirectly plays its role and the composure and discomposure of our body depends upon our mental composure. Our mind is also paudgalic (material). Regarding this Carl Gustav Jung states in his book entitled "Aion":
" Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise could it move matter? And matter cannot be alien to psyche, for how else could matter produce psyche? Psyche and matter exist in the same world and each partakes of the other, otherwise any reciprocal would be impossible. "28
Since our mind is material, it goes on being vibrated or affected by various kinds of thoughts. The vibration or effect is sometimes good and sometimes bad i.e. harmful. The mind influenced by harmful vibrations becomes discomposed and consequently the body also becomes discomposed.
Regarding this, Fritjof Capra, the celebrated physicist states in his book entitled 'The Turning Point':
"The notion of illness as originating in a lack of integration seems to be especially relevant to approaches that try to understand living organisms in terms of rhythmic patterns. From this perspective synchrony becomes an important measure of health. Individual organisms interact and communicate with one another by synchronising their rythms and thus integrating themselves into larger rythms of their environment. To be healthy, then,