Reals on the Jaina Metaphysics

SR No.: 001619
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Shatnidas Khetsy Charitable Trust Mumbai
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Religion, & Epistemology
File Size: 8 MB

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Reals in the faiña Metaphysics kind”. Our observation and scientific experience yield only this that matter is capable of modifications. These modifications consist in combinations of atoms, their decompositions and again in fresh combinations and so on. These combinations are not due to the interventions of the Creator nor are left to pure chance. Modifications of matter are strictly determined by the conditions and circumstances, then prevailing. There are the infinite number of souls in the world in various stages of developments; there are the principles of motion and rest; there is space in which all substances are contained; there is time, the principle of continuous mutation; there are the innumerable material forces. All these are realities in every moment and the modification of a material phenomena of a given moment is determined by these factors. ' CA Tomtragcfaat TAASTfactACTae ffatrat TE-Jah .....
as Ratnaprabhāçarya says.
COMBINATION OF ATOMS, DEPENDENT BOTH ON INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CAUȘES
As regards the manner of atomic combination, the Jaina's maintain that this is due to the operation of two forces, qualities or Guņas, as they call them, of Sneha and Rūkşa. According to the Greek materialists' conception, atoms combined when per chance they happened to come in contact with each other. Combination was thus left to pure chance, an external blind agency after all. We have already referred to the theory of elective attraction of Bergman. Lavoisier and others improved upon this theory and established that combination cannot be said to be due simply to the fact that one factor elected to attract another. The combination of the two constituents in a compound is dependent on their mass, so that the mutual attraction of the two combining substances was governed by the same law by which the planatory bodies attract each other. Thus the combination of one atom with another must be said to be due to both external and internal factors i.e. forces both outside and inherent in the combining particles. This law seems