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Tattvarthasutra
That is, it achieves various results. The power to produce results in a substance is called its guru, and the result arising from qualities is called the paryaya. The quality is the cause, and the paryaya is the effect. A substance has an infinite number of qualities in the form of power; these are either inherently present in the substance or are not separable from each other. Each quality is infinite through the various paryayas arising at different times from power. The substance and its inherent powers are eternal, that is, without beginning or end. However, since all paryayas are produced and destroyed in succession, they are individually transient, that is, they come and go, while in terms of the flow, paryayas are also beginningless and endless. The flow of paryayas occurring in a substance due to a causal power is homogeneous. The flow of paryayas arising from infinite powers of the substance also continues endlessly at once together. Different powers resulting in diverse heterogenous paryayas can converge in a single substance at a single time; however, paryayas of one power in the same nature occurring at different times do not meet in a single vision at once.
The soul and pudgala are substances; because in them, consciousness and form respectively have infinite qualities, and knowledge, vision, and various usages, as well as various infinite paryayas such as blue and others. The soul transforms, through conscious power, into various forms, while pudgala transforms into different forms through its material power. Conscious power cannot be separated from the substance of the soul and from other powers belonging to the soul. In the same way, material power cannot be separated from the substance of pudgala and from other powers belonging to pudgala.