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one time but later it gets to be of yellow.colour, when ripe, but it remains still a mango. Like this the different forms of jewelry, the shape and uses of course have changed but the material is the same in different levels, Production and destruction are themselve the modifications as seen in the universe at different levels. Whenever, there is modification, there is Dravya or Reality and whenever there is a Dravya there is a modification. Dravya or Reality, thus, at one and the same time is having production, destruction and continuous existence. Likewise, that all the three situations are found in the universe, because universe is the composition of six Realities i.e. jīva, pudgala, dharma, adharma, kāla and akāśa.
Regarding the foundation of the universe the Jainas have said that there are only two entities-conscious (cetana or jīva) and the unconscious (acetana or ajīva). They do not agree with the idea that unconscious is born out of the conscious fundamrntal or that the conscious has evolved out of the unconscious. These two are the only fundamentals and are beginningless as well as independent. These two fundamentals have been elaborated into the seven (somewhere nine) fundamentals-2-(1) jīva, (2) ajīva, (3) āśrava, (4) bandha, (5) samvara, (6) nirjarā, (7) mokşa. Everything which exists in the universe is to be conceived as a modification or a particular differentiation (either jivaparyāya or ajīvaparyāya).
The modes of Reality or Dravya which seem essential to the constitution of these two infinite and eternal attributes must themselves be infinite and eternal; they distinguished by the Jainas as the immediate, infinite and eternal modes as necessary and universal feature of the universe and descending to the finite modes which are limited, perishing and transitory differentiations of Dravya. The transitory finite modes can only be understood and their essence or nature is deduced as effects of the infinite and eternal modes. They are in this sense dependent on the modes of higher order33.
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Tattvārthasūtra, 5/29 Theory of Reality in Jaina Philosophy, Sikdar, p.8
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| SR No. | 520161 |
| Book Title | Jain Journal 2006 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Bhawan Publication |
| Publisher | Jain Bhawan Publication |
| Publication Year | 2006 |
| Total Pages | 50 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India |
| File Size | 3 MB |