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SCIENCE IN JAINISM: PERSPECTIVES, ISSUES
AND FUTURISTIC TRENDS (English)
By Dr. M.R. Gelra
Jain Vishva Bharati, Ladnun
2002 222 x 145 mm 89 pp
81-901458-1-9 Hardback Rs.200

Throughout the history of mankind, philosophers and
scientists have always grappled with the problem of bridging
the chasm between faith and reason; science and religion;
rights and duties.

Science, with its emphasis on method and insistence on
replicable experimenting and uniform results does not easily
ally itself to religion. A religion in the most generic sense is a
philosophy rooted within a certain dogma. A religion must
make certain assumptions in order to develop its
epistemology and metaphysics.

Hence, religion and science are uneasy bedfellows. Despite
this, Dr. Gelra has taken elements from the Jaina
Dravyanuyoga, long considered difficult to prove with the
help of general science; and reviewed the concepts and
doctrines of Jainism in the light of modern advance in general
science and technology.

Stephen Hawking's "A Brief inspired the author
History of Time", and motivated enough to provide a critical
perspective of modern science under the three heads of
A. The Philosophy of Nature
B. The Philosophy of Science
C. The Sociology of Science

The contents of the book read as follows
1. Science in Jainism
2. Anekanta : A Jaina Contribution to Scholastic Methodology
3. Living in Harmony with Nature: The Jaina Perspective
4. Massless Matter
5. A Critique of the Eight-point Centre Concept in Jainism
6. Santhara : An Auspicious Death
7. The Contribution of German Scholars to Jaina Studies
8. Non-Violence and the New World Order
9. Universal Space

The book makes an important attempt to take a good hard
look at the many progresses that science has made; and
studies Jainism in this fresh light.

A big flaw in the book is the absence of a bibliography and
appendix.

Yours in Ahinsa,
Manish Modi

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