Aptamimansa

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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Verse 15
predicate will be: 'the soul is non-existent (asat) with regard to non-consciousness (anupayoga) which is its other-being (parabhava).'
As another illustration, the world is eternal with regard to its substance (dravya); it is non-eternal with regard to the forms (paryāya) of substances that are seen one day and gone the next.
If the object be considered existent (sat) with regard to its other-quaternion too, the difference between an animate object (jīva soul) and an inanimate object (ajīva non-soul, matter) will vanish. If the object be considered non-existent (asat) with regard to its own-quaternion too, everything will become null and void (śūnya).
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