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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
The two bodies do not suffer any resistance in transit even through the admantine layers etc. just as the finely transformed heat enters unresisted in the solid iron ball. This absence of obstruction in transit or movement is called nonresistance. These two bodies are, therefore, non-resisting. 3. Q. The transformational and ejectable bodies could also be non-resisting because they are also finely transformed. Under this condition, how is it that only the last two bodies have been called as non-resisting? A. There is specific intention of universal non-resistance in mentioning this fact. It is observed that the luminous and karmanic bodies do not suffer any resistance anywhare throughout their transit upto the end of the universe However, this is not the case with the two other bodies as they have areal limits (mobile channel only) of their non-resisting capacity. They are not universally non-resistant.
The aphorism 2.40 refers to the nature of the last two bodies. Is there any other characteristic about them in addition ? The next aphorism describes their durational characteristics:
Alternatively, the soul is beginningless while the body is non-eternal. How the ultra-sensual soul gets associated with the non-eternal body ? In response to this, the following aphorism is intended:
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Anādi-sambandhe Ca
2.41 The above two-luminous and karmanic bodies have beginningless association with the soul or the living beings. 1. Q. What is the utility of the word 'ca' in this aphorism ?
The word 'ca' in this aphorism indicates the alternative meaning. It ans that the association of the soul and the last two bodies may be eternal as well as non-eternal. 2. It is observed that the tree grows out of seeds. The seeds grow from another tree, and the tree again from another seed - thus, there is eternal relationship between the seed and the plant tree with respect to the general series of cause and effect. However, this relationship has a beginning also with respect to specific tree growing from specific seed and the specific seed growing from another specific tree. The specificity makes the relationship noneternal.
Similarly, the luminous and karmanic bodies have also eternal relationship with the soul with respect to the general cause-effect series originating from earlier births. It is non-eternal with respect to the specific birth
If the above soul-body relationship is presumed ot be absolutely noneternal, there will be no newer embodiment for the bodyless soul because there will be no cause for it.
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