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The Unknown Pilgrims
We may here take note that bandha, union, is either natural or induced by human effort, including the union of a living substance with a nonliving, that is, jiva and karman. Matter is divided into: skandhas, molecules, and anus, atoms. 35
ii-iii) Dharma-adharma
Movement and repose are immaterial substances that permit the movement and repose of the jivas. On account of their not possessing life, of their being non-material, these substances do not occupy a defined, limited space, but fill the entire universe.36 They play their part with detachment, i.e., with impassiveness; they are not themselves the cause of movement or repose on the part of the jivas and matter, they do not meddle in these substances, so to say, but they facilitate the forward movement or its cessation:
In the same way as water assists the movement of the fish, so too dharma (assists the movement) of the pudgala and the jiva; it (dharma] does not move the immobile (jiva and pudgala).37
The comparison given for adharma is that of the shadow which permits repose and cessation of movement to the weary traveller. 38 iv) Ākāša
35 Cf. TS V, 25-28.
36 Cf. TS V, 13.
37 gaipariņayāņa dhammo puggalajivāņa gamaņasahayari
toyam jaha machāņaṁ acchaṁtā ņeva so nei. DravSam 17.
38 thāņajudāņa adhammo puggalajivāņa thanasahayāri
chảya jaha pahiyānam gacchaṁtā neva so dharai. DravSam 18; cf. TS V. 17.
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