LIFE LOCKED UP IN SOLID STONES

LIFE LOCKED UP IN SOLID STONES

There are numerous examples of living creatures locked up in solid rock strata thousands of years old. Even in India when temples were built, when stone pillars giving peculiar sound on beating were broken, living frogs or toads are found coming out of the cavity.

The following few examples may serve as proof of such happenings.

A horned lizard was found alive in a block of stone, which can even prevent the entrance of the smallest insects, was sent to Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 1853 for testing. The lizard lived for two days. (Based on Scientific American, July 30, 1853).

In 1852 workmen digging for ore at Paswic, Derby, England found a living toad in a cavity in a large rock at a depth of about 12 feet from the ground level, after breaking the rock. The toad died soon after it is taken out. (Based on the Zoologist, 10:3632, 1852).

There are numerous examples of toads and frogs locked up in solid rock strata for thousands of years. But the following example of a pre-historic flying reptile locked in a great boulder of Jurassic limestone for 100 million years with life is a great mystery.

When French workmen were digging a railway tunnel between the St.-Dizier and Nancy lines, they happened to split open a great boulder of Jurassic limestone. They found something monstrous stumbled towards them. It fluttered its wings, croaked and died. It is a flying reptile known as Pterodactyl, with leathery wings and long toothy beaks, which existed about 100 million years ago according to scientific opinion. The rock stratum in which it was found was consistent with the period in which it lived. The boulder also contained a cavity in the form of an exact mold of the creature’s body. (Based on the illustrated London News, February 9, 1856).

Several theories are put forward to explain such phenomena, but no theory is self sufficient to explain the same. One such explanation is that though the stone in which these creatures are found appears to be solid, it may actually contain fissures through which water, air, perhaps even  nutrients may enter. But this theory seems to be an assumption only, but not proved scientifically.

According to some Indian saints, the soul of human beings or any other life force takes the light ray as vehicle and makes journeys into the universe. While doing so it takes infinitesimal form suitably and travels at the speed of light. If so there should be certain range of wavelengths that it can make use for its journeys into the universe. This fact is unknown. There should be certain wavelengths that this life force cannot use. Perhaps such wavelengths which the life force locked in solid rock can use, cannot penetrate into such rock. Not only that, but the bacteria or others that can decompose the body also cannot enter the solid stone to reach the body of the living locked up life, let it be any creature including human being. Due to some sudden phenomena of getting locked up in a solid stone, neither the life force (soul) comes out of solid stone, nor the body gets decomposed for million years. This is only an extended theory based on available human knowledge. Need not be taken for granted.

Buddhists call such locking of life in solid rock for thousands or even millions of years as occasional Hells. These occasional Hells lie outside the main circles of Hell, and are sometimes encountered in this world.