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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
liberated being who has no karmic association. Secondly, if the living being becomes devoid of karmic activity after death and attains new living body, there are undesirable possibilities of space being active and the liberated one being karmically associated again. There will, thus, be no difference between the worldly and the liberated beings. 6. The Vaišesikas contend that there cannot be motion of the soul as all-pervasive, infinitely extensive, and permanent along with non-materiality Moreover, its association with the new body is in simultaneity with release from prior body (i.e. death). Hence also, there is no need for motion after death. This opinion is not correct as a logical inference proves activity in the soul- the soul has motion or activity as it has the quality of impluse causing motion due to the realisaion of soul-maturing karma of destinity like the motion in hand etc. of Devadatta or throw of stones etc. Secondly, the prevasiveness of the soul is also not a proven fact as it is seen to have a body-size and all feelings and emotions arise in this size only. All the reasons given to prove pervasiveness are contradictory with direct perception and infested with trasgressional flaw. They are, therefore, useless. Thirdly, the prevasiveness means non-action. There will be no world if there is no action. Hence, the living being has transmigratory motion due to karmic activity. 7. It seems there is no luminous body during transmigrational motion as it is said to be accidental be some scholars. However, attainmental luminous body may be there.
The space is formally said to contain spacepoints due to its realtionship with accommodation of atoms. The living beings and mattergic entities are substrates for the space. These move through space. The next aphorism describes whether the transmigratory movement is in order of the spacepoints or without any order:
Anusreni Gatih 2.26 The motion of the living and the mattergy takes place according to the series (straight lines) of spacepoints in space (i.e. the motion of the living being and mattergy is generally linear). 1. The series is defined as the row of successive spacepoints in space in all directions- higher up, lower down and sideways commencing from the centre of the universe. 2. The word 'anu' means succession, following or order. Thus, the living beings and mattergy have motion in space in rows in succession. 3. Q. This section deals with the living beings. Therefore, the mattergic entities should not be included in the motion here. A. This is not correct. The inclusion of the word 'motion' in the aphorism indicates that here the general motion is involved and not the specific motion. Had there been an intention regarding the motion of the living beings only, the
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