Applied Philosophy of Anekanta

SR No.: 006966
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shashiprajna Samni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati Institute
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 220
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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second meaning is that the substance has many innumerable or infinite modifications; therefore it has infinite attributes.
Modifications have two varieties : the intrinsic modifications (arthaparyāya) and the visible modifications (vyañjana paryāya). The intrinsic modifications are subtle; they change with the minutest unit of time (samaya, the smallest unit of time, which is further indivisible). This change has twelve stages.'
The subtle modifications cannot be known through the senses. They are the object of super-sensuous consciousness. The visible modifications are gross. They manifest themselves and, therefore, can be known through the senses also. It is in the case of these gross modifications, that we can think of both, the possible and the probable. A colour can change into another colour, a smell into another smell, a taste into another taste, and a touch into another touch. Yati Bhoja has described two types of potentialities-the potentiality, which can be actualized at a distant time (oghasakti) and the potentiality, which can be immediately actualized (samucitāśakti).The former is the mediate cause, while the latter is the immediate cause of change. Grass has the potentiality of becoming ghee at a distant future. Curd can change into ghee immediately. The potentialities are too many to be enumerated. Theoretically, it could be said that potentialities of an object are innumerable as far as the mediate form of potentiality is concerned.' A scientist through his research can know a few of these. A person, with the power of super-sensuous knowledge can know them through super-sensuous knowledge. An ordinary man can, however, know only the immediate cause or the visible modifications. We
Nayacakra of Māiladhavala. Ed. Kailāschandra Šāstrī. Varanasi: Bhāratīya
Jñān Pītha Publication, 2000, p. 211. - ? Dravyānuyoga Tarkaņā of Shrimad Bhojaka. Ed. Shrimad Rajchandra.
With Hindi translation by sākurprasādaji. Gujarat: Shri Paramśruta Prabhāvak Mandal, 1977, verse-6, 7.
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