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'he earth by incessant rains; it will not be destroyed, even if it enters the speedily moving opposite current of the Ganges or the Niagara falls; it will not lose its existence or identity even if it enters a drop of water or a whirl-pool of water. Again, 'Paramanu' of 'pudgala' has no half-portion; it has no middle portion: it has no pradeshas It has no length, no breadth, no depth it is dimensionless It always exists as a unit
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Democritus says "An atom is indivisible, unfissionable and indestructible. It is complete in itself and is eternally as fresh or new as it was in the beginning of the Universe" The so-called indivisible 'atom' of Democritus has already been split today, but the 'paramanu' of Jainology still remains indivisible and will ever remain so. According to Jain Canons it can neither be a subject of sensuous cognition nor experimentation. As has been said before, regarding its truly infinitesimal minuteness, "animate bodies (including human beings) cannot effect the motion or action of a 'paramanu'; they can effect only those material bodies which comprise infinite number of 'paramanus
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We, therefore, come to the conclusion that the 'atom' which was believed to be the indivisible unt of matter by science was in fact an aggregate of matter containing many 'paramanus' of Jainology. And today, it has been proved by actual experiments that the 'atom' far from being indivisible is really a
