Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 001663
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: P V Research Institute Varanasi
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 412
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Physics
File Size: 23 MB

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The Concept of Matterin Jaina Philosophy
in Matter, because of there being the division of breaking up of skandha. When a paramāņu dissociates from one skandha it does so by a terrible motion. On the disintegration of a skandha a dynamic motion is naturally generated, but in acchinna pudgala-skandha (unbroken aggregate of matter) also there takes place a dynamic motion due to the above mentioned ten causes.
Activity and motion of paramānu are regular from some point of view and irregular also from other points of view. But they are mainly irregular, for this reason the motion of it is called aniyata (irregular). 2
Paramāņus are vibrating (or moving) and non-vibrating (or non-moving) from the point of view of time.2 The duration of vibration (or movement) of a paramāņu is one samaya (instant) in the minimum and innumerableth part of an āvalikā in the maximum and that of its non-moving is one samaya in the minimum and innumerable samayas in the maximum.3 A paramānu is sarvaija and nireja (wholly moving and nonmoving), while skandhas (aggregates) having two up to infinite units may be deśaija (partially moving), sarvajja (wholly moving) and nireja (non-moving). 4
In regard to the intermediate times of the vibration of matters-ultimate atoms and aggregates, it is stated that matter immersed in one space-point or innumerable points of space exist vibrating for one samaya in the minimum and innumerableth part of an āvalikā in the maximum in the case
calejjā, nijjarijjamāṇe vā calejjā, viuvvijjamane vā calejjä, pariyārijjamāņa vā calejjā, jakkhaitthe vā calejjā, vāyapa
riggahe vā calejjā, Sthānā., 10. 9. 35. 1. RV., 2. 26; Paramāņorgatiḥ aniyata, vide Jaina Padārtha
Vijñānamen Pudgala, p. 72. 1, BhS., 25. 4. 744; 2. Ibid., 5. 7. 217. 4. Ibid., 25. 4. 744