Life in and around us

Everyday we hear spiritual men saying that there is life in everything that is present naturally in this world. Scientific world too has verified this fact in many facets of the existence around us. But do you know that decades ago, this fact was publicly proved by two people.This article draws heavily from "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda, a great soul that physically manifested itself from January 5, 1893 to March 7, 1952. Here are some facts from his great autobiography:
1) Sir Jagadish C. Bose, the exemplary physicist and plant physiologist was the first one to prove that animals, plants & even metals all have life. They all behave like real soulful beings. His wireless inventions (wireless coherer & instrument to detect Electric Waves)antedated that of Marconi. It's just he didn't exploit it comercially. He was firstly a physicist and contributed some notable observations including that of particle BOSON. He invented Crescograph, producing 10 million magnifications & was knighted for the same in 1917. In his meeting with Yoganandaji, he showed him his experiments on a fern plant. In the magnified image of plant's shadow, its continuous growth was clearly visible. When he touched its tip with a rod, its growth paused & resumed as the rod was removed.Then he showed how plant fell asleep on administering Chloroform & then it woke up on administering its antidote. When he "hurt" it by piercing it, it showd spasmodic flutters to show "pain".When it was finally cut by razor, it showed violent shaking then stilled, thus finally "dying". He also proved there is complete circulatory system in all plants, like our heart. Peristaltic waves are issued from a cylindrical tube that travel through out the plant and hence it's not just the capillary-action as thought earlier. He then showed reaction of metals like piece of tin using another instrument (that recorded characteristic waves of atomic structres), by applying similar stimuli. It also showed in terms of graph fixed patterns on these stimuli. His work has time & again substantiated by several other scientists.
2) In California USA, Yoganandaji met Mr. Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa. This great man was famous for his special garden where he had done some really miraculous experiments with plants. He had improved plant-breeding using Scientific methods as well as "love". While he experimented for a "spineless" cactus, he would often talk to them to create a vibration of love. He would tell them, "You don't need your defensive thorns. I'll protect you." And soon it appeared in a "thornless" variety. All this may sound unbelievable, but as you all may know recently too, scientists proved that playing good soft music to plants helped in faster & better crops. in another experiment, he made walnut tree reach a state of abundant nut production, in just 16 yrs. Unaided it wud have taken twice that time. He wrote a book titled "The Training of the Human Plant". He wrote, "The most stubborn living thing in this world, the most difficult to swerve, is a plant once fixed in a certain habits......Remember that this plant has preserved its individuality all through the ages......Do you suppose, after all these ages of repetition, the plant doesn't become possesed of a will, if u so choose to call it, of unparalled tenacity."
So, undoubtedly you must have understood how that life-force materializes itself in & around us in countless forms. It's just that we lack the "eye" that can constantly see this picture and find ever-pervading unison in terms of life-force.