ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02

Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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SELF BUDYIS THE
collection of paramāņus and is perceptible. Skandha is further classified in six categories as
follows:
Gross
Lump, which can be broken in parts and the parts, cannot be lumped together again e.g. wood, stone.
gross.
Gross
Lumps, which cannot be broken in parts but divided and can be mixed together again e.g. milk, water etc.
Grosssubtle
Those which can be seen but cannot be touched or held e.g. shade, light etc.
Subtlegross
Those which cannot be seen but cognized by some other sense organs e.g. words, sound, heat, odour etc.
Subtle
Cannot be cognized by any sense organ directly like karma particles.
Subtle
Even smaller e.g. lumps of two or three paramāņus.
Pudgala is a substance type that is concrete i.e. with touch, taste, smell and color attributes. It is active like jīva. However unlike jīva, its activity is not purposive to spontaneously result in its manifestation of its nature. It is thus affected to a large extent by jīva and is capable of greatly affecting jīva, due to its omnipresence. It is a major component of empirical soul and almost all knowledge acquired by empirical soul is through the use of matter as a means or the medium. Tattvārtha-sūtra (V.19-21) beautifully describes the benefits and uses of pudgala for jīva.
Thus matter is of immense use to the jīva. Identification of empirical soul and its activities are all due to matter associated with it. Even acquisition of knowledge by jīva to rid / dissociate itself of matter is matter. Spoken words, activities of mind, body and speech, thoughts are all matter.
Matter has eight types (4 pairs of existent-nonexistent attributes) of touches (2 out of 4 present at a time in any paramāņu), 5 colors, 5 tastes and two smell types. Thus a total of
Sarīravadmamanah prānāpānāpudgalānām/ sukhdukhajivitamaranopagrahāśca/V/19-20 Parasparograhojīvānām, Tattvārtha-sūtra, V/21
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