Pravachansara

SR No.: 034445
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers
Total Pages: 407
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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Pravacanasāra
separateness (přthaktva) does not exist between the substance (dravya) and the existence (sattā) since these have commonality of space-points (pradeśa). As the cloth and its whiteness have the same space-points, in the same way, the substance (drauya) and the existence (sattā) have the same space-points. However, the nature of substance (dravya), with regard to its designation (samjñā), number (samkhyā), or sign (lakṣaṇa), is not the same as that of the existence (sattā), and vice versa. Such difference beween the possessor-of-quality (guņi) and the quality (guņa) is due to self-identity (anyatva). This self-identity (anyatva) exists in the substance (drauva) as well as in the existence (sattā). Both the substance (dravya) and the existence (sattā) have the same spacepoints (pradeśa) but differ with regard to their designation, number, or sign. Thus, there certainly is the difference of selfidentity (anyatva) between the two. As the cloth and its quality of whiteness have the difference of self-identity (anyatva), similarly, the substance (dravya) and the existence (sattā) have the difference of self-identity (anyatva). The quality of whiteness is the subject of the sense of sight and not of the other senses, but the cloth is the subject of other senses too. Therefore, the quality of whiteness is not the same as the cloth and the cloth is not the same as the quality of whiteness. The quality of existence (sattā) has the substance (dravya) as its substratum, it is one attribute of the substance (dravya) and is not the substratum of other attributes, it is one of the infinite attributes of the substance (dravya), and has many modes (paryāya). The nature of the substance (dravya), therefore, is not the nature of the existence (sattā) and the nature of the existence (sattā) is not the nature of the substance (dravya). There is the difference of self-identity (anyatva), as between the possessor-of-quality (guṇī) and the quality (guņa). There is, however, no difference of space-points (pradeśa).
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