Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals

SR No.: 001656
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 210
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Biology
File Size: 13 MB

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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
(viii) The spacepoint-ness is also a common property as all the realities have numerable, innumerable and infinite spacepoints. This is also inherent because of its non-dependence on karmic realisation etc. (ix) The non-materiality is also common as the realities of the living, medium of motion and rest, space and time are non-material. This is also inherent because it does not depend on karmic realisation etc. (here the term 'Jīva' (living) seems to be taken as to mean 'soul'). (x) The permanence is also common as all the realities are substantively devoid of origination and destruction. This is also inherent as it does not depend upon any karmic processes. (xi) The property of movement upwards is also common as we find fire etc. inherently moving upwards. It is also inherent because of the above reason.
Similar other common inherent volitions of the living may be added to this list. 14.Q. It is contended that the word 'ca' in 2.7 is not meant for inclusion of existence etc. as pointed out above. It is meant for including the volitions of destinity etc. of the earlier aphorism 2.6. A. This contention is not desirable. The destinity etc. are not accepted as inherent volitions as they are caused due to karmic realisations. 15. Secondly, the varieties of volitions mentioned in aphorism 2.2 indicate only three varieties of the inherent volition. Hence, the word 'ca' cannot include destinity etc. 16.Q. It is contended that the volitions of destinity etc. should have a mixed or dual nature of realisation-cum-inherence like the volition of destruction-cumsubsidence. The concept will also not violate the different number of varieties of individual volitions. A. This is not correct. The term 'inherent' has been designated with a purposeful meaning. It means by nature or intrinsic modes. This type of naturality is not observed in the volitions of destinity etc. as they are due to karmic realisation. 17. Secondly, the aphorist has not mentioned that the destinity etc. have a dual volitional nature as he has mentioned the mixed nature of destruction-cumsubsidence in case of knowledge etc. 18. Thirdly, if destinity etc. are taken as mixed volitions, they will also be inherential. Thus, they will always be there. This will incur the possiblity of non-liberation. (They could also be the volitions of the salvated ones which is undesirable). Thus, it is established that the word 'ca' in 2.7 is meant to add 'existence etc.' and 'not others'. 19.Q. It is contended that there should be the word 'etc.' (ityadi) in 2.7 to include 'existence etc... Thus, the aphorism should have a different form which will not have 'ca' also . (However, the Svetāmbara rendering of this aphorism 2.7 have both the terms 'adi' and 'ca' also).
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