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PTULSI-RAJNA, Jan.-March, 1992
The authors, Mr. J. S. Zaveri and Muni Mahendra kumar, developed the idea of an integrated personality in the Prajñā Parva period, when Acharya Shree Tulsi celebrated his 75th year as the year of welfare (yoga-kşema) and during that period the problem of bridging the wide gulf between religion and science was discussed and it was thought essential to satisfy the sceptic by scientific methodology and convince him about the superiority of wisdom alone superfluous knowledge.
The authors had tried their best to build a bridge to transcend the chasm between the philosophical outlook and the scientific mind which does not accept anything that cannot he experimentally proved while the religious mind needs no proof for anything laid down in the sacred canonical books. Though they are not sure, as they themselves say “we are not sure whether we have succeeded in making this presentation both readable and intelligible" but I am sure that a tremendous work has been done and this publication of Jain Vishya Bharti Institute has produced a dogmatical research in the field of the Science of Living.
Topics like Internal Forces of life, Language of the Brain, Loving and Attachment and Fearing and Fighting-all give very useful and hitherto unknown but based on scientific grounds; information that reader will accept and honour.
I particularly agree with authors that with the development of sexuality come new needs. The basic impetus to sex comes from deluding-karman, heredity and hormones but its manifestations are profoundly influenced by experience. Very often, grown-up men and women may enter into matrimony without the slightest idea of how to go about sexual intercourse and proper sexual behaviour is developed after a period of experiment and learning. Inspite of a spate of publicity about sex, it remains a very private phenomen among humans and this very privacy leads to much anxiety and ignorance and to quite unfounded fears of being abnormal.
The whole question of sexual attraction between permanent partners seems still to need study. The western theory that we become attached to each other by a biological bond does not seem to be right. The relationship between the hormonal factors and the programs of so-called higher parts of the brain are still little known.
Anyhow, the authors have paved the way and the study in Neuro-science and karman is on. I hope the matter will be discussed and new demensions will open to facilitate the common reader.
--Parmeshwar Solanki
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