Dravyasamgraha

Author(s): Nemichandra Acharya, Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp

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Dravyasamgraha
अणुगुरुदेहपमाणो उवसंहारप्पसप्पदो चेदा । असमुहदो ववहारा णिच्छयणयदो असंखदेसो वा ॥
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गाथा भावार्थ - व्यवहारनय से समुद्घात अवस्था के अतिरिक्त यह जीव संकोच तथा विस्तार से छोटे और बडे शरीर के प्रमाण रहता है, और निश्चयनय से जीव असंख्यात-प्रदेशी है।
10. From the empirical point of view (vyavahāra naya), the soul, in states other than that of samudghāta, due to its capacity of expansion and contraction, is co-extensive with the physical body that it inhabits, but from the transcendental point of view (niscaya naya), the soul has innumerable space-points.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Ācārya Umasvami's Tattvārthasūtra प्रदेशसंहारविसर्पाभ्यां प्रदीपवत् ॥
(5-16) (It is possible) by the contraction and expansion of the spacepoints (of a soul) as in the case of the light of a lamp.
Acārya Pujyapada's Sarvārthasiddhi The soul which is non-material somehow assumes material form on account of beginningless bondage. And it dwells in small or big bodies on account of its karmic body by contraction and expansion as the light of the lamp. Therefore, the soul can dwell in one, two, etc. of the innumerable parts of the universe. The light of a lamp lit in an open space extends far and wide. But it extends only to the limit of a dish or a room in which the lamp is placed.
Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 141.
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