Cosmology Old and New

SR No.: 006547
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 232
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 12 MB

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SUTRA 13. In order to make the point clearer, Ācārya Amrtacandra give the following in Tattvärtha-sära :
लोकाकाशे समस्तेऽपि धर्माधर्मास्तिकाययोः।
तिलेषु तैलवत् प्राहुरवगाहं महर्षयः।। 208 Dharma and adharma are placed in the universe (not like a pot inside a room) but permeate the whole of it as does oil inside the oilseeds.
Also in Sarvärtha-siddhi :
"Tuntsaffrat e Ta TT, T ETAP Tulatoratetsa - गाहो न भवति। किं तर्हि ? कृत्स्ने, तिलेषु तैलवदिति ॥ अन्योन्यप्रदेशWETSTEURIATatsa|6aunaterrea: 11'209
(Tr.-The dravyas dharma and adharma are not situated in the universe like a pot inside a cabin. Then how? They pervade every iota of it as does oil inside the sesamum seeds. These dravyas mutually interpenetrate without affecting their respective functions. This is possible because they possess the property of accommodation.)
The diffusion or interpenetrability of dharma dravya into adharma and vice versa is difficult to explain by comparing it with a similar concrete case in Nature for these dravyas are formless, non-material210 and non-atomistic, whereas everything concrete in Nature is extremely porous. A similar difficulty is experienced in imagining how an infinite number of souls, who have attained Nirvāņa, are residing at siddha-sila, which is of finite dimensions. This also is explained by saying that pure souls, being non-material, possess the power of inter-penetrability and hence their existence, infinite at one place, is possible. The analogy of light is sometimes employed to explain these cases. The light from a single lamp can fill a whole room as well as light from a thousand different lamps; yet light given by each lamp does not lose its identity but only interpenetrates. However the point cannot be hidden that light is atomic. If we assume these media to have parts, the necessity of assuming the existence of another medium filling the interstices will arise and
208. Taitvärtha-sara, 3.23 209. Sarvártha-siddhi on Sutra 13. 210. sifarang TUTTI TF Caefarte: 1
(Tautvårtha Vartika, 5.13)