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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
Secondly, as the non-eternal body accidently associates with the soul, it can also associate with the liberated soul in a similar way, Thus, there will be no liberated souls. 5. Moreover, there will be no liberation in the absolute eternalist concept. If one is beginningless, one is also endless like the space. Thus, there will be no cause-effect relationship and, therefore, no liberation. Q. It is observed that that eternal seed-plant relationship is destroyed by the cause like fire. Similarly, the eternal relationship of the soul-body can be destroyed and liberation may be there. A. This is not correct. The seed-plant relationship is not absolutely eternal. It has already been said that this relationship is non-eternal too with respect to particularity. Thus, it is proper that this relationship is taken as eternal as well as non-eternal.
Are these luminous and karmanic bodies possessed by some or all? The following aphorism describes about this point:
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2.42 These two bodies are possessed by all the worldly beings.
The aphorism means that the last two bodies are possessed by all the worldly beings without exception. 2. The aphorism 2.42 has been composed in singular number with respect to the geneal quality of the circuit of birth and death. If this quality is not found in any worldly being, he may not be called as such. Supplementary Notes (2.40-42) 1. The following points are dealt with in the commentary : (a) As per 2.40, the last two bodies are non-obstructing ones. They can penetrate anywhere like the heat particles in the iron mass. This property is found in them throughout the space upto the end of the universe. (b) The transformable and ejectable bodies have a limited area of nonresistence. (c) As per 2.41, the luminous and karmanic bodies have a beginningless and beginningful relationship with the living beings with respect to the general cause-effect and specific cause-effect relationship like the seed-tree relationship. (d) This relationship cannot be absolutistically either way. It will lead to the absence of the liberated souls, new embodiments or non-liberation. (e) As per 2.42, the two bodies are possessed by all the worldly beings. (f) The commentary gives justification for the use of singular number in terms of worldly beings forming a class as such. 2. The above three aphorisms indicate three special characterstics of the luminous and karmanic bodies- (a) the two are universally non-resisting (b) the
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