Systems of Indian Philosophy

SR No.: 002019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 212
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 10 MB

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class of aggregates is acal or sensations--the sensation of pleasure or pain. The third is it or name. The fourth is Heart or the potentialities which lead to good or bad results, and the fifth is faatat or knowledge. These five aggregates include all bodily and mental parts and powers of man and neither any one of them nor any group of them is permanent. It is repeatedly laid down in the Pitakas that none of these 5s is soul. The body itself is constantly changing and so also each of the other aggregates. Man is never the same for two consecutive moments and there is within him no abiding principle whatever.
In Hyat fapilt, a Budhhist work, Buddha says : “Mendicants, in whatever way the different teachers regard the soul, they think it is the five as or one of the five. Thus, mendicants, the unlearned, unconverted man who does not associate either with the converted or with the holy or understand their law or live according to it, such a man regards the soul either as identical with or as possessing or as containing or as residing in the material properties or sensations or in the other three was. By regarding soul in one of these ways he gets the idea. I am’. Then there are the five organs of sense and mind and qualities and ignorance. From sensation produced by contact and ignorance the sensual, unlearned man derives the notions I am', • This I exists', 'I shall be' 'I shall not be' etc. But now, mendicant, the learned disciple of the converted, having the same five organs of sense, has got rid of
However, Abhidhammathasangaho tells us that is not a separate form of matter but stands for the collectivity of पथवीधातु, तेजोधातु and वायोधातु. On the other hand, it enumerates an additional form of matter called कवलीकारो आहारो (i.e. CITET)---meaning 'the food consumed'. Hence the number of forms remains 28 in both lists.