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SVASTI -Essays in Honour of Prof. Hampa Nagarajaiah
1. 'Waves in calm water'
2. “Marudeva's death made her immortal'
3. 'As I approach nearer to the Almighty, He maintains the same distance and
illusion' 4. “Sun removed the darkness/but, it could not be seen in extreme brightness'
All these are imaginations of a poet, yet are very close to the truth. Mahāprajña has extended his imagination up to the horizon where the practical reality meets the scientific theory. His logic is very simple: meet. According to him, the principle of Anekānta gives us a tool with which the seemingly opposite ends can be bent to encircle the complete picture, which depicts the complete truth. Examples from Medical Science Einstein has stated that the music cannot be truthfully described in scientific terms of frequencies and amplitudes only. It has an intrinsic value, above and beyond science, entering into the arena of higher consciousness. Human body is just like a symphony. It can be quantified in terms of medical parameters of blood, bones and muscles, yet it has an intangible and impenetrable spirit. A complete picture emerges only when the obvious' meets 'the occult'. Mahāprajña has cited several examples from human anatomy where the two diagonally opposite forces exist and act in a coordinated manner. (1) According to the medical science two main centres of activities cohabitate in the
body. One is - "Jñāna Center' acted upon by Hypothalamus and another is ‘Kāma Center' actuated by the Gonads. Pineal and Pituitary Glands when acts on Gonads stimulate the acts of pleasure, while they act on hypothalamus to initiate the journey of super-conscious knowledge. Ironically, both these activities are indispensable part of the human anatomy. Jñāna is essential to protect the life while Kāma is inevitable to perpetuate the life. Both are interrelated and interdependent - reinforcing each other. It is difficult to establish the superiority of one over the other.
(2) Our body is abode to billions of cells. Every second, tens of millions of them die
and an equal number of them are born, thereby maintaining a perfect balance. The body is alive only when both activities run simultaneously. An uncontrolled growth of cells results in cancer while the continuous decay of cells invites death.
(3) Psychologically too, the human behavior is a mix of male-female qualities.
Aggression and affection both coexist in all humans, albeit in different proportions. From Jain Karmavāda viewpoint, happiness-sorrow, quspiciousinauspicious, superior-inferior, longevity-fragility all types of conflicting karmas
