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inanimate being moves from one place to another, this invisible force is involved. Science too has accepted this force.
In the same way, Adharmasitkaya is also a force and it is instrumental for the jiva and ajiva remaining stationary. In our sitting, standing, sleeping and such stationary postures, along with our body and place, Adharmastikaya is also responsible. For both Jiva-ajiva substances adharmastikaya offers the support of stability. Had this force been missing from the Universe no jiva or ajiva would have remained stationary ever.
We can neither see both these forces, nor can we feel them in any other way. But we have to accept them in faith. These principles are proclaimed by the omniscient supreme soul and hence there is no reason why we should disbelieve them.
The third substance is akashastikaya. Akash - sky - avakash - space - empty space. The word akash immediately draws our attention upwards. We immediately point our finger skywards. But what is it? Empty space. Infinite sky. There is sky in the Loka and in the Aloka there is only sky, nothing else. The sky has to provide space for the jiva and the ajıva.
The fourth substance is Kal. What is Kal? It is only a transitory substance that cannot be held down by any force. It keeps passing by along with the movement of time. We say “time has gone by’. But have we seen where to? Of course, we have tried to catch hold of time, tried to measure it with the pace of the Sun and the Moon and for our own consolation developed the measures of hour, minute, second, microsecond, nanosecond and so on through which we established the arithmetic of days, months, ages, arus and avasarpini-utsarpini and the cycle of times. In spite of all this we cannot hold down even a single second nor can we experience it. We have considered the changes in the jiva and ajiva that occur with the continuous transition of Time - Kal, and tried to understand Time through it. But no worldly jiva has ever been entirely successful in it. Only the
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