Scientific Secrets of Jainism

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

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Scientific Importance of Guru In Spirituality
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was a Brahmin pundita well-versed in 14 Vidyās i.e. 14 different branches of ancient literature, and he used to perform sacrificial rite. He had 500 Brahmin disciples. So long as Indrabhūti Gautama had not seen Bhagavān Mahāvira and had not entered in his spiritual bio-electromagnetic field, he cherished the ambition to conquer Bhagavān Mahāvira in debate and establish his supremacy in all branches of literature all over the world. But as soon as he came near Samavasaraņa, a place of sermon, where Bhagavān Mahāvira was sitting and saw him, his ambition to defeat Bhagavān Mahāvira crumbled and he lost himself in the surrender to Bhagavān Mahāvira and thus justified the statement that a guru's idol is a centre of meditation : " *** Tetofor I dhyānamūlam gurõrmürttin"
It is said that when Tirthankara Paramātmā gives religious sermon, people, birds, and beasts from a distance of as many as 12 Yojanas ( 1
iles) come to hear his sermon. His spiritual bio-electromagnetic field expands as far as twelve Yojanas.
Now-a-days as the techniques of acupuncture, acupressure and colour therapy are used to cure physical diseases, so magnetotherapy is also used. This is what follows from the description of the state of omniscience of śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira, the Guru of the whole universe. His bio-electromagnetic field was so powerful that wherever he went, people of that region were cured of their diseases and nobody fell ill as long as six months after his departure. Enmity could not prevail. No famine was caused by absence of rain or excessive rainfall. That was the effect of his grand power. It seemed as if he had hypnotised or mesmerised all
Really speaking, it will not be surprising if western scientists prove in near future that all these excellences or unexplained properties (Atiśayas) of a Tirthankara's life were not miracles but they were the effects of the pure bio-electromagnetic field of their spiritual power that was revealed on removal of karmic obscurities of his soul, When Indrabhūti Gautama got from Bhagavān Mahāvirasvāmi the explanation which solved his doubt about the existence of soul, he accepted Bhagavān Mahāvira as his guru, devoted his life to him and justified that a guru's feet are a place of worship- qorini FT: 94 1 būjāmūlam guron padau ..
And when śramana Bhagavān Mahāvira gave Dikṣā (initiation) to his