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tremendous and unimaginable energy matter possesses. The world of science has produced inventions of unimaginable energy of matter. There are two entities in the world. Soul and matter. What tremendous progress science has achieved in the world of matter! The propounders of Jain Philosophy have openly declared that matter possesses infinite energy. The only limiting factor is that they have not made use of this energy or experimented with it because these processes involve tremendous himsa (violence). The Jain Darshan gives importance to the development of the soul only. The joy which is sought in the association of matter lies in the soul itself. No joy is filled in the mango. It lies in the eater of the mango. The vast ocean of joy can be experienced without any circumstantial cause of matter. And for that reason only, the Jain Religion for attaining the independent sovereign blissful state of the soul has propounded the processes for annihilating Karmic coverings obscuring the perfect state of the soul and turned a blind eye to the dazzling development of the world of matter. But it has in no uncertain terms discussed about the extraordinary energy of matter
I will now cite an instance of a computer. The Tata Institute has installed a computer worth rupees 96 lacs. This computer within fifteen seconds gives answers to thousands of multiplication and divisions. Its speed for counting sums and substractions is still far greater. Friends, what tremendous energy this lifeless machine possesses !
Ah! I will now recite to you an astounding story about the reply of a computer to a query. You will not then doubt even in a dream how molecules of Karma which are matter can create birth and death to a soul.
A man had resort to a computer for advice about watches, He told the computer that he had two watches and one of the two had stopped. The second was moving daily ten seconds behind time. So, which of the two should be tied on his wrist?
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