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________________ SELF BUDYIS THE collection of paramāņus and is perceptible. Skandha is further classified in six categories as follows: Gross Lump, which can be broken in parts and the parts, cannot be lumped together again e.g. wood, stone. gross. Gross Lumps, which cannot be broken in parts but divided and can be mixed together again e.g. milk, water etc. Grosssubtle Those which can be seen but cannot be touched or held e.g. shade, light etc. Subtlegross Those which cannot be seen but cognized by some other sense organs e.g. words, sound, heat, odour etc. Subtle Cannot be cognized by any sense organ directly like karma particles. Subtle Even smaller e.g. lumps of two or three paramāņus. Pudgala is a substance type that is concrete i.e. with touch, taste, smell and color attributes. It is active like jīva. However unlike jīva, its activity is not purposive to spontaneously result in its manifestation of its nature. It is thus affected to a large extent by jīva and is capable of greatly affecting jīva, due to its omnipresence. It is a major component of empirical soul and almost all knowledge acquired by empirical soul is through the use of matter as a means or the medium. Tattvārtha-sūtra (V.19-21) beautifully describes the benefits and uses of pudgala for jīva. Thus matter is of immense use to the jīva. Identification of empirical soul and its activities are all due to matter associated with it. Even acquisition of knowledge by jīva to rid / dissociate itself of matter is matter. Spoken words, activities of mind, body and speech, thoughts are all matter. Matter has eight types (4 pairs of existent-nonexistent attributes) of touches (2 out of 4 present at a time in any paramāņu), 5 colors, 5 tastes and two smell types. Thus a total of Sarīravadmamanah prānāpānāpudgalānām/ sukhdukhajivitamaranopagrahāśca/V/19-20 Parasparograhojīvānām, Tattvārtha-sūtra, V/21 STUDY NOTES version 5.0 Page 41 of 385
SR No.007712
Book TitleISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorInternational School for Jain Studies
PublisherInternational School for Jain Studies
Publication Year2012
Total Pages404
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size13 MB
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