Dravyasamgraha

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

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Verse 14
The attribute of agurulaghutva is described thus in the scripture:
... The eternity of souls as well as matter being established, it now becomes necessary to analyze the nature of their interaction. To understand this fully, we must now turn our attention to the quality known as agurulaghutya, which is defined as that property of substances which maintains them as they are, and prevents their being converted into other things. This is nothing other than the special rhythm of each substance which is maintained in its own nature by the intensity of its vibrations, though allowed considerable scope for fluctuations of intension within certain limits. In virtue of this property of things, the union of different substances results neither in the destruction of an old nor in the creation of a new substance, for that would be a miracle, but in the fusion of their elements into a new form.
Jain, Champat Rai, The Key of Knowledge, p. 533-534.
Origination and destruction
Ācārya Pujyapada’s Sarvārthasiddhi Though there is no origination or destruction by external causes in a liberated soul, there is origination and destruction by internal causes. Internal causes are described thus. By the authority of the scriptures, infinite attributes 'agurulaghuguņas', which maintain individuality of substances, are admitted. These undergo six different steps of infinitesimal changes of rhythmic rise and fall? (increase and decrease). Origination and destruction are established by these changes.
Adapted from: Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 134.
1 This wave-like process is a common and natural feature of all
substances, found in the atom as well as in the mass.
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