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ESSENCE OF LIFE
The life can be considered as a state of being living with consciousness. There are many explanations for the werd 'life'. Literary persen tried to define it in unexplanatory words like jov, struggle, pleasure etc., whereas scientists tried to explain in scientific manner by searching experimentally verified proofs from all corners of knowledge. Though, people from all fields still not explain the word 'life' so as to satisfy onr curiosity.
The desire to understand the causes for the state of being living led the scientists to reach upto the level of chemical compounds like DNA, RNA, proteins and enzymes. Scientists have succeded in synthesising these compounds in the laboratory but failed to inject the 'LIFE' (energy or soul) responsible for bringing the state of living. Scientifically, we can say that life is an energetic organic (DNA Protein/RNA) compound. The method of making organic compounds energetic is still beyond science'.
The inner nature or most important quality of the life can be coined as 'essence of life'. Now to explain or write about the essence of life cannot be justified till we do not have a clear understanding of life. Any how if we consider energy (soul) with organic compouds as life then there is a force (consciousness) in the energy. Our scientific knowledge proved that energy can neither be created nor destroyed so as 'soul' according to our religious knowledge. Thus a close relationship between soul and energy can be easily established.
It is believed that religion is the basic nature of soul. Religion is a binding force of one soul with another soul. This force is present in all livings of the earth and they do love, atiract and even cooperate with each other when they realise the reality of life and soul. It is scientifically proved that each and every living cell has energy (soul) and its voltage (as in case of electric) can be measured. For example a plant cell have 0.4 to 0.3 volt whereas in human it may be upto 90 volt. Now we can understand the amount of energy present in a human being (About 7500 billion living cells in an adult body).
The essence is smell and power of life, which has been realised and understood by the great human of the earth (say incarnation of God or Saints). Thus understanding and realising about our inner environment is more important than outer environment. To bring and establish purity and improvement in outer environment, the inner has to be purified first. This means understanding the life and its essence first than other natural components.
-Dr. Suresh Jain
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