ABC of Jainism

Author(s): S L Jain
Publisher: Maitree Samooh

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5. Time : an immaterial substance, which helps in maintaining and measuring all
the changes.
Question: What is the logical explanation for various activities and changes happening in the universe ? Answer : According to Jainism, it is the nature of all substances to undergo the process of creation, destruction and maintaining its intrinsic nature. A living beings undergoes continuous transformation, always staying in the state of living being. A matter always stays in the state of matter. A matter is never transformed into a living being and a living being never into a matter. The presence of a particular nature in a substance suited to a particular change is an essential factor for that change to happen in that substance. For example, a substance can be burnt only if it has the ability to be burnt; otherwise not. After burning, it transforms into ash from but it continues to remain a matter. It is like energy that can not be created or destroyed but could be changed in different forms.