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kinds of touch, it possesses a pair of touch, one either sticky or rough and the other hot or cold. In this manner, every atom has two kinds of touch.
Atom has no dimensions of length, breadth, depth and height.
When one atom combines with another, the instrumental cause is not colour, smell and taste but only its touch.
In a tub full of water, drop a particle of blue colour and subsequently go on gradually adding one particle after another of this colour in the water and you will find the bluish colour of the water changing with every addition of a particle. When the first particle was dropped, the colour was very light blue but with the addition of the millionth particle, it became dark blue and with the addition of the one hundred millionth particle, it still became darker blue. Thus with the drop of every additional particle, the emerging blue assumed a colour different from the preceding and succeeding ones. It is thus proved that there are hundreds, nay, millions, nay, infinite varieties of blue colour.
In this manner, the other types of colours, red, yellow etc two kinds of smell, five types of taste and eight types of touch, all these would have infinite divisions.
So one kind of sticky touch would be of infinite varieties.
Equally so, one kind of rough touch would be of infinite varieties.
Similarly, all eight types of touch would have infinite varieties. It has been indicated above, that in the combination of one atom with another, colour, smell and taste are not determining causes. The efficient cause is merely the touch of the two atoms. Every atom has two kinds of touch, sticky or rough and hot or cold. But in the union of two atoms, the operative cause is their touch, sticky and rough.
Let us divide infinite varieties of sticky touch into various categories, such as, one degree sticky, two degrees sticky, three degrees sticky, and so on till infinite degrees sticky. In
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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 |