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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
The causality is observed only in the case of non-existent. The
is there to effect an action. Thus, there is contrariety between existence and causality.
Thirdly, the illustration of, 'hair-crest of the frog' represents the existence because it is subject to the cause of conception of non-existence. But it has no cause of origin. Hence, it exists and has no origin. Thus, the illustration is inconclusive because it covers both the sides of existence as well as nonexistence.
Moreover, the illustration is also fallacious as it is deficient with respect to the properties of probandum and probans. The hair-crest of the frog can be proved to have cause with some respect and to have an existent nature. A living being takes birth in different modes due to karmic charge. He birth as a frog and has his rebirth as a woman when it is said, the hair-crested woman is the same in this birth as the frog in her earlier birth. Thus, because of the living being the same in the form of woman-moded frog, it could be said the frog has a hair-crest with respect to the maxim of formerliness. The mattergic entities undergo eternal and infinite changes. The foods etc. intaken by the above-said woman transform into hair-crest. Hence the hair-crest has a cause also. Thus, the hair-crest of the frog does neither have non-existence nor noncausality. The same logic could be applied in the case of 'horns of the hare' or the son of barren lady' etc. Q. How this logic could be applied in the case of 'sky-flower' ? A. A tree formed by the grouping of the soul and mattergy due to specific karmic realisation of physique-making karma of plant body is called flower (flower). Other mattergic entity can also be transfomred into flower and may be called matterige flower as it pervades it. Similarly, the 'flower' is also pervaded by the sky. Hence, it can also be called 'sky-flower'.
Q. The flower is said to be flower of mattergic tree because it is served by the tree. A. Similarly, it could also be said as 'sky-flower' as the sky also serves to accommodate it. The sky is always in association with the flower even when it is fallen from the tree. Q. The flower is a different entity and sky is a different entity. How it could become a sky flower ? A. This logic will mean that it could not also be the flower of a tree as the two are, similarly, different. The difference here is with reference to name etc. Alternatively, the hair-crest of the frog is the subject of knowledge transformed into the form of its external entity. Hence also, its existence could be logically accepted.
The second syllogism for the non-existence of soul - there is no soul because it is non-perceptible like the horns of the hare- is also infested with fallacies of unprovenness, contrariety and inconclusion. The middle term or
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