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The five Astikayas are said to be Anu-Mahant (minutely great) because they are the basis of the five Astikayas. Therefore, they are called Kayapana (having a body). The Kayapana of a single Pradesh (space) atom is due to the fact that these atoms form Skandhas (aggregates) due to their oily or rough qualities. Therefore, they are Kayapana due to their use or application. Kalaanu (time atoms) do not have the power of oiliness or roughness due to their mutual binding. Therefore, they are not Kayapana even by application. The absence of this power in them is because all Kalaanu are Amurti (formless). In this way, this verse describes the special names of the five Astikayas, their existence, and their Kayapana. This Sutra should be understood to mean that only one pure Jeeva Astikaya is worthy of being accepted. ||4||
**Time Explanation Verse-5**
Here, the possibility of the existence of the five Astikayas and the possibility of their having a body are explained.
Those who have a nature along with qualities and various transformations, they are the Astikayas from which the three worlds are born. ||5||
Indeed, the Astikayas have a nature, a self-nature, and non-duality along with qualities and various transformations. The special features of an object are different from its transformations, while qualities are inherent in it. Therefore, even a single object that is dissolving with one transformation and arising with another, and holding on to its inherent quality, has existence characterized by destruction, creation, and permanence. However, if there is complete duality with qualities and transformations, then one will perish, another will appear, and another will hold on to permanence, and everything will be in flux. Therefore, this is the explanation of the possibility of proper existence. The possibility of having a body is explained by itself.
Because the Jeeva, Pudgala, Dharma, Adharma, and Akasha are not non-existent, their parts, which are called Pradesh (space), are also said to be transformations due to their mutual difference. Their non-duality with these transformations makes the existence of a body possible. Even a single atom, which is without parts, has the power of having parts, so the existence of a body is not refuted. This is not the intention - that the assumption of having parts for those other than Pudgala, who are formless and indivisible, is wrong. It is seen that even in the indivisible space, there is the assumption of division as this is the space of the pot and this is the space outside the pot. If there were no division there, then the space of the pot would be the same as the space outside the pot. This is not desirable. Therefore, the existence of a body, which is the same as having parts, is to be understood for all except Kalaanu.
The fact that they are born in the form of the three worlds is also a means of proving their Astikayatva. Thus, the three worlds, the upper, lower, and middle worlds, are born with the three types of creation and permanence, and they are the special nature of those worlds. Therefore, they prove the existence of their fundamental elements along with the combination of qualities and transformations. It is inferred that Dharma, Adharma, and Akasha have the existence of having parts, which is the same as the transformation in the form of the upper, lower, and middle worlds. Even the Jeevas...