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
tus is used to a very great extent for negatively charging the air. This machine produces and throws off billions of anions every second. In the rainy season we experience the tendency of sleeping after taking meals and do not feel like doing anything because in those days, there is a larger number of cations in the atmosphere. Not only from the view points of compassion for living beings and hygiene but also from the view point of mental complacency and health, it is, therefore, necessary to drink boiled water. All that has been said here is fully scientific.
There are some people who say that lifeless water is a cause of many possessions. But it is a bad logic. It is not proper to say that the instruments necessary for observing non-violence and compassion for lives are possessions. Ācārya Sri Haribhadrasūriji also say this in his 'aştaka prakarana!
There are some people who say that all kinds of water available on earth is mixed with some or other kind of earth, ash etc., therefore, it is lifeless. Why should it, then be again made lifeless? Pure water is ava the laboratory. We are non-omniscient. We are, therefore, not hundred percent sure whether this water contains life or it is lifeless. Therefore, even if water is naturally lifeless, it should be again made lifeless.
There are some people who compare rainy water with water formed from the vapour in the kitchen. They say that if rainy water contains life, drops of water attached to the lid of a vessel in the kitchen which are made of vapour, should also be regarded as cotaining lives. But this is a wrong belife. Superficially looking both these processes seem to be similar but in fact the difference between them is veery great.
'Vivavicāra Prakarana' composed by Ācārya Śrī śāntisūriji in the twelfth century of Vikram Era and Jain canonical scriptures such as 'Jivābhigama' etc. mention the rainy water as life containing water. Perhaps sometimes there are fishes also in the rainy water. Therfore, rainy water should not be believed as lifeless water. Generally, in Gujarat and also in other states laypresons filter the water in the early morning once a day, that contains life. The treatise 'Pravacana Sārāddhāra '(verses 881-882) of the Svētāmbara tradition states that the thrice boiled lifeless water becomes life containing after 15 hours in summer, 9 hours in monsoon and 12 hours in winter. The verse is as under :