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explained this by saying that,15 "As it is natural for the sun and fire to possess heat; for the moon to possess coolness; for water to possess fluidity; for sold things to possess hardness, for wind to possess motion, in the same way the earth is by its very nature immobile, because the laws of nature are strange "
Jain Acharya Shri Vidyanand Swami, while proving the "Theory of the Rolation of Earth" to be invalid, observes in his well-known book "Tattvarth Shlokavartika,"16 "The invalidity of the Theory of Rotation of Earth is obvious. It does not require any proof, because every man experiences the immobility of the earth This experience of the immobility, being identical for all people in all space and time, cannot be classed as a mere illusion The rotation of earth is not proved by inferences also, because we do not get any extraordinary characteristic. If it is said that although all the stars are steady; day and night occur on earth, and differences in time such as morning and evening, etc occur and that this in itself is an extraordinary characteristic, it cannot be accepted because this too is also vexed by evidence If this was accepted, it only proves that because the fire possesses heat, it is material But then it has to be believed that because of the existence of coolThe conness in water etc, they are also material clusion therefore is that 'heat' as well as 'coolness'
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