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DRARNA AND ETHER
218 meant by ether, undulations and waves, so much so that, judged by his standards and speaking his language for a moment, the ethers and their waves are not realities at all? And yet they are the most real things of which we have any knowledge or experience, and so, are real as anything possibly can be for us"
Those, possessing a detailed knowledge about the Dharma Dravya can easily grasp that, how speedily the Scientists are nearing the concept of 'Dharma. Dravya', as defined in Jain Scriptures, after passing through a long zigzag chain of imaginations and hypothesis.
Although the long existing conceptions prevent from accepting such a non-material element, the reality of nature attracts them more and more towards it
The following authorative quotations will further elucidate that Dharma Dravya and either are indentical to each other Sir Eddington wrtes in his wellknown book "The nature of the physical world."
"This does not mean that the ether is abolished We need an ether. In the last century it was widely believed that ether was a kind of matter, having properties such as mass, rigidity, motion like ordinary matter It would be difficult to say when this view died out. Nowadays it is agreed that ether is not a kind of matter. Being non-material, its properties are Sugeneries (qute unique) characters such as mass and rigidity which we meet with, in
