PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion op The Twentieth Centuryciple manifests itself not only through animalforms but also through vegetables and eventhrough inorganic metals. We have learnt to-daythat the plants have eyes and other senses, thatthey have something like a nervous system,pulsation, heartbeat and the power to feel painetc. Those who have read Sir J. C. Bose'sfamous book entitled "Response in theandLivingNon-living" will remember that ordinarymetal like iron or tin manifests life-force andrespondsto an electric shock in the same manneras a living tissue or a muscle of a livinganimal.This discovery has revolutionised ourconception of life and nonlife. Moreover, ithas emphasized that old truth mentioned inthe Vedas that life-force or Prana is one anduniversal, although its manifestations aremultiform.Biology has disproved theold Theory thatGod breathed life into the nostrils of the firstman before he became a living animal, as ifthe lower animals had no breath of life at all ;6