I am The Soul Part 02

SR No.: 006791
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association
Total Pages: 466
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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I am the Soul various shapes are paryaya - transition. The making of an ornament from gold is the creation of a transition - paryaya - in the form of ornament. Later when the ornament is melted and recast into a new shape, it is the destruction of the earlier shape and creation of another. But in either states, the gold has remained the same. Although the ornaments were converted, the gold in them did not change. That is its permanence.
While defining dravya - substance - in another way, it has been said -
गुण पर्यायवत् द्रव्यम् ।
That which is dependent on characteristic - guna - and modification - paryaya - is dravya - substance. The indestructible quality that remains always with the substance - dravya - is called its guna - characteristic. And the change of states that occurs from time to time in the dravya is the modification - paryaya. Modification is of both dravya and guna. Modification keeps on happening, but neither substance nor characteristic changes.
Just as water is a dravya. The ripples that arise in it from time to time are its paryaya. Ripples arise and abate. But there is no change in water due to that. It remains just as it was, just that much as it was. Similarly, the coldness of the water does not alter because of the ripples arising. Water is the substance - dravya, coldness is its characteristic - guna - and ripples are the transition - paryaya. The substance in the form of water has remained just as it was. The characteristic of coldness has also remained just as it was. Ripples as modification, arise and abate. They change.
Since ripples appear in water, they are the modification of water. Coldness increases or decreases. Water heats up due to atmospheric heat or sometimes it turns very cold. These are the modifications of guna - characteristic. The reason behind the