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that which is empty fills up everything. That which has no shape-is amorphousis behind all shapes. That which can not be experienced through sense is the one that they have been experiencing. It seems to be a paradox. Laotse has very aptly observed that 'paradox is the language of truth.'
Pudgal : Attributes of Melting and Fusion Mahavir defines Pudgal: that which melts and crumbles down, takes on forms. Defines the matter: the one which contains GUNA (attributes) and Paryay (constant change). The statement is very simple. But it has been grasped after going through all complexities. Matter is that which has a form. It is created and destroyed constantly. Matter and form are two different things. The attributes of Form are not in the matter but only the matter has a Form. The attributes of the matter that the physical science takes up as reference; in fact, belong to the Form. They keep changing with the Form. They are not the attributes of the matter. Matter does not have any attribute. The aroma of the rose, the taste of a ripe fruit, the feel of a luxuriant grass, the malice notes of a musical instruments, the fascinating smile of Mona Lisa are all related to form. Form is not shape; though shape is a kind of form. Form is the ultimate end of the constant cycle of change. Change is a constant thing. So, form keeps changing. Form is an expression. The attribute is the medium of expression. There can not be a form without attribute. There can not be attributing without a form either. What the physicist perceive as the events of the unified field are also Form. That is expression too. Mahavir considers that too as Paryay-melting away-crumbling down, taking-changing of shapes come under Form, come under Paryay. Paryay is the product of matter, not the Matter itself. Meeting and crumbling is the consequence-end of Pudgal not the Pudgal itself. What is then Pudgal itself? What is matter? We do not know. Science explores the mathematical equations only. These equations stop at Form only. Science does not look beyond that. It accepts that it can not be known,
Weight is not at all a quality of substance.
Substance has no weight in itself. weight is the effect of mutual attraction.
That weight is of one matter fragment upon another fragment.
Even that effect
is reciprocal. The earth pulls man and man pulls
the earth. It is a different thing that the earth is Larger in size.
Divisions is in Matter, not in knowledge At the conclusion of his ten-volume 'Synthetic System of all knowledge' Herbert Spencer has confessed that reality is unknowable. Mahavir says we do not have to stop at this point. Knowledge has infinite dimensions. Democritus could not go beyond atom. Enjoyment, Form, Odor and Touch are all in the atom. After establishing that he became silent. He had assumed that the atom was unbreakable and there was nothing else to be known after that. Einstein split the atom and gave the foundation of the nucleus - electron moving round the proton - a miniature solar system. Then it went farther than that from particles to wave and then quantum. Further than that-events. And now the theory is that of the unified field: thereby meaning that the whole universe from the minutest to the largest-is an interrelated thing. Activities are forms too. Even they will be invaded. Even the field as a concept is a mental form. What is that in which exist all these but which is not all these. Mahavir says knowing of that is important. Once you have known that One then all other things will be known by themselves. The one who knows One, he knows all, the one who knows all, knows one. Know the cosmos, the nucleus will be known by itself. Division is in the Matter, not in knowledge.
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