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
This is not correct. It is said earlier that the inherent volitions have three varieties only. By including the word 'etc. in 2.7, this propositional content will be lost as existence etc. will form more than three varieties. 20.Q. This is also the case even with the additive term 'ca' in 2.7. A. This is not correct. The word 'ca' represents aspectal approach. The aphorismic three are the main inherent volitions. Thus, the proposition is maintained. However, as the existence etc. are common volitions, they are secondarily inherent volitions intended by the word 'ca'. If we have the word 'etc'. in 2.7, all these will have become primary and the volitions of livinngess etc. will have lost their prominence due to uncommonness or both types of volitions would have become primary on the basis of assuming them as properties belonging to the living in general. 21.0. Let there be an additional volition of conjugational (Sannipatika) nature as it is mentioned in canons. A. This is not necessary as it does not exist. 22. Secondly, even if it exists, it is implicated by the word 'misra' (mixed) volition in the aphorism 2.1. Though this word connotes the volition of destruction-cum-subsidence, still there is another word 'ca' (and) which indicates that the word 'mixed' does include both these volitions. Q. There seems to be no consistency here. If there is volition of conjugational nature, how did you call 'it does not exist'? It is one contradiction. If it does not exist, how is it mentioned in canons ? How does it get implicated, then, by the word 'mixed' in the aphorism 2.1 ? A. There is no flaw here. The volition of conjugational nature is not a single volition. It is what is meant by its non-existence. However, it does exist with respect to conjugational alternatives of the volitions.
The first 'ca' word in 2.1 indicates the first sense of non-existence while the second 'ca' indicates its existence in the form as pointed out. The reference to this point should be taken with different aspects
The canonically mentioned volition of conjugational nature has twenty six, thirty six and forty one varieties. The 26 varieties are based on permutations and combinations of two, three, four and five volitions. They could be shown as below: (a) With reference to the binary combination of the realisational volition with others, we have ten varieties : 1-4. There are four varieties of human beings with respect to the binary combined volitions of (i) realisational-subsidential nature (ii) realisational-cumdestruction-cum-subsidential nature (iii) realisation-cum-destructional nature and (iv) realisational-cum-inherential nature. 5-7. With reference to the binary combination of the subsidential volition with other excluding realisational volition, we have three varieties- (i) subsidential-cum-destructional volition represented by the destructional right
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