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## Self-Time Statement of Authority
No substance is available. Just as a spark, when rotated, appears to be a circle of light, but in reality it is not so, similarly, the community of elements, being associated with a specific action, creates the illusion of a living being or soul, but in reality there is nothing like that. Just as in a dream, even though external objects do not exist, their experience is felt, similarly, in the absence of the soul, knowledge about it arises in the community of elements, such a glimpse appears. A mirror is very clean. When reflected in it, external objects also seem as if they are inside the mirror, but in reality it is not so - it is not inside the mirror. Just as in the summer season, the rays of the sun, pulsating from the heat of the earth, produce watery knowledge, appearing as water. Gandharva Nagar etc. are as they are in their own form, they appear different from that. Similarly, the soul, even though it is not separate from the five elements in the form of the body, creates the illusion of being separate.
Many commentators analyze and discuss certain sutras that are proponents of these illustrations, but we have not seen those sutras in the old copies of the sutras - in the ancient commentaries. Therefore, they are not mentioned here. To tell
A doubt arises that if there is no independent substance called soul, apart from or in addition to the five elements, then the merits and demerits done by it cannot be done either. Then how can this world, which has so much diversity, happen? As a result of whom do these diverse situations appear? In this world, someone is powerful, someone is humble, someone is fortunate, someone is unfortunate, someone is prosperous, someone is suffering, someone is beautiful, someone is ugly, someone is diseased, someone is healthy without disease. Why do these diversities in the world happen?
In resolving this doubt, it is said from the side of the Tatchiva Tatcharirvadis that whatever happens, happens by nature, its cause is nature. For example, somewhere a stone block is given the form of a deity, kumkum, agar, sandalwood etc. are applied on it. They are wiped off, incense etc. fragrant substances are offered. She gets the opportunity to get the fragrance etc. of these. In other words, it can be said that she experiences it. There is another stone block on which people wash their feet etc. Such a low-grade work is used in which. No merits and demerits are associated with both the stone blocks, due to the rise of which they are getting such states. Therefore, it is proved that the cause of the diversity of the world is nature itself. It has been said that the sharpness in the thorn - the peculiarity in the peacock form, the variegated colorfulness, the peculiar color in the rooster - the cause of all this is nature itself. Here the principle of Tatchiva Tatcharirvadis has been explained.
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**कुव्वं च कारयं चेव, सव्वं कुव्वं न विज्जई । एवं अकारओ अप्पा, एवं ते उ पगभिआ ॥ १३ ॥**
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