Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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qualitative sense, in the same place in space, it most clearly follows that the absence of the whirling posts would at once deprive them of their continuity in Time, and cause them to vanish and disappear, like vortices which cease to exist the moment they cease to revolve. Now, since things continue in all parts of the Lokâkâsha, it further follows that Time must be present at every conceivable point of space in that region. Time, then, may be said to be a substance consisting of a countless number of points or pins, each of which occupies but one point of the region of space known as the Lokákásha. As such, its particles cannot be conceived as forming compounds with one another, or with other substances. For this reason it is called a non-astikaya, that is, as not extending beyond a solitary pradesha (an imaginary point in space of the size of the smallest particle or atom).
THE SIDDHANTA.
The distinction between pure 'be-ness' and continuity of 'be-ing' insisted upon by us, it may be pointed out here, is not purely imaginary, or a mere matter of words; there is a real difference between the two terms and it lies in the fact that the suggestion of functioning present in the latter is altogether wanting in the former. 'To be' and 'to continue to be' not being the same thing, the difference between them is precisely what underlies the idea of function, since to be in nature is in reality only to function. In other words, pure functionless 'be-ness' is absolutely unthinkable by the mind, so that existence cannot be ascribed to what is devoid of all function. To continue to be, then, holds good in respect of all things, and the continuity itself is possible