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## Self-Time Statement of Authority
Commentators solve this by stating:
Those who are distressed, experience fear, and become the subject of such perception are called *tris*. Two-sensed and other beings fall under the category of *tris*. They experience the pain of *trisatva*. Those beings who have the *karma* of *sthavara* arising are called *sthavara* beings, such as earth and other beings. Those who are like human beings in one existence, are also like that in the next existence, and are born in the same form, is what the *lokawadis* believe. If this is considered true, then all actions like charity, study, acquiring knowledge, chanting, remembering God, and penance would be meaningless or pointless. But this is not the case. Even the *lokawadis* say that beings are born in a different form. For example, it is said that a man who dies with feces in his body is born as a jackal. Therefore, *sthavara* and forest animals can be born as each other according to their own *karma*. *Tris* can become *sthavara* and *sthavara* can become *tris*.
The *lokawadis* say that this world is infinite and eternal. The solution to this is as follows:
Substances do not perish in relation to their own kind. From this perspective, if the world is called eternal, there is no harm in it. Accepting this, the principle of *parinaami* eternity, which is in accordance with Jain philosophy, is accepted. If you do not accept this and call the world eternal by accepting substances as without origin, without destruction, stable, and having one nature, then this is not true because there is no such substance visible which is without origin and destruction, stable, and always having one nature. Therefore, your opinion is contradicted by direct evidence and is invalid. In this world, there is not a single substance that is not composed of momentary *paryayas* or states. *Paryayas* or states are prohibited substances, like the flower of the sky, which are non-existent and therefore non-existent. If you call the material substance, space, and soul indestructible, then this is also beyond the truth in relation to the particular substance, because all substances in the world are composed of production-origin, expenditure-destruction, and stability-permanence, and are involved in an undivided form without division. If this is not accepted, then the reality of the substance, like the flower of the sky, will not exist.
The *lokawadis* have said that this world is finite because it is composed of seven islands and a surrounding earth. This can only be accepted by your ignorant friends. Those who act thoughtfully and with discernment cannot accept this because there is no evidence to prove it. The *lokawadis* have stated that a man without a son has no world. This is as unreasonable as what a child who speaks childishly says. If having a son alone gives a special world, or if there is a special ritual or work done by the son, or if a special world is obtained simply by the son's good nature, then the entire world will be filled with dogs and pigs because they have many sons. If you accept that a special world is obtained by the good and virtuous rituals performed by the son, then this is also not appropriate because suppose a father has two sons. One has performed good and virtuous rituals and the other has performed evil and sinful rituals. Will the father go to the higher world because of the son who performed virtuous rituals or will he go to the lower world because of the son who performed sinful rituals? At the same time, it will also happen that the *karma* that the father himself has done will be completely useless. Therefore, for the sonless...