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Each sand contains infinite small sands. Each small sand contains infinite particles.
Every fibre of your bush shirt contains infinite particles. Every part of the one rupee note which is in your pocket contains infinite particles.
In short, any visible substance in the world is made of conglomerations of infinite corpuscles.
The building means a storehouse of incalculable conglomerations of particles.
A youthful damsel means a storehouse of innumerable aggregates of infinite particles.
Money, books, in short, all materials have the same connotation.
It should be remembered that a pile of sands is not the building of the Westminster Abbey. But the bricks are made of piles of sands, walls of heaps of bricks, rooms of walls and the storeys of collections of rooms and in this manner, the said building is built of hundred and twenty storeys. Similarly, mere conglomerations of particles are not bricks, walls, rooms or the building. But the combinations of separate atoms form spatial units and out of these spatial units are formed, sands, stones, bricks, buildings etc.
How does one atom combine with another? How could infinite atoms come to be concentrated into one spatial unit ? Is it necessary to have any special rules or conditions for one atom to combine with another ? Let us now discuss all these issues.
The Jain thinkers propound that the chief characteristics of matter are colour, odour, taste and touch. Colour is of five kinds, black, blue, red, yellow and white. Smells are of two kinds, agreeable and disagreeable. Taste is also of five kinds, bitter, stringent, sweet, sour and pungent. Touch is of eight kinds, sticky, rough, cold, hot, smooth, hard, heavy and light..
Every atom possesses one of the five colours, one out of two smells, and one out of five tastes, but out of the eight
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| SR No. | 007016 |
| Book Title | Karma Philosophy In Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chandrashekharvijay, Chunilal Vrajlal Modi |
| Publisher | Kamal Prakashan |
| Publication Year | 1978 |
| Total Pages | 84 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 7 MB |