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THE ESSENCE OF JAINA SCRIPTURES
When one looks with only the eye of the modification-aspect open, whilst the eye of the substance-aspect is decidedly closed (Insert vidhaya in the text), then to those who observe only the several differentiations disposed in the soul-substance, such as the modifications hellinhabitant, animal, man, god and liberated soul, and do not observe the generality, it manifests itself as something else, and again something else. For the substance is, during the times of its several particularities, not other than the particularity of each time, because it has the nature of it; as in the case of fire, which has the nature of the collected (material, gana), of grass, or leaves, or wood.
But when with both eyes, the one for the substance-aspect and that for the modification-aspect simultaneously open, one looks in the two directions, then the soul-generality disposed in the modifications such as hell-inhabitant, animal, man, god and liberated soul, and the soul-particularities, consisting in these modifications, hell-inhabitant, animal, man, god and liberated soul, and abiding in the soul-generality, are simultaneously observed.
Here the one-eye-view is a partial view, and the two-eye-view is the complete view. In this complete view the anyatva and un-anyatva of substance are not contradictory.
Now he introduces the sapta-bhangi,47 which prohibits all contradictory-assertions (vipratishedha): II.23. With regard to some modification or other, it is stated that a substance is (1), is not (2), is indescribable (3), is both ()48 or something else. 49 (115)
(1) Quodammodo (syat), it is, (2) Quodammodo, it is not, (3) Quodammodo, it is indescribable, (4) Quodammodo, it is and is not (= 1 + 2), (5) Quodammodo, it is and is indescribable (= 1 + 3), (6) Quodammodo, it is not and is indescribable (= 2 + 3), (7) Quodammodo, it is, is not, and is indescribable (= 1 + 2 + 3), B. (1) With reference to (rupena) itself. (2) With reference to another. (3) With regard to simultaneously of reference to itself and reference to another,
