Jain Journal 1969 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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and matter separately, in all vyañjana paryāya is of eight different types as stated below:
(1) Svabhāva dravya vyañjana paryaya of soul (2) Svabhāva guṇa vyañjana paryaya of soul (3) Vibhāva dravya vyañjana paryāya of soul (4) Vibhava guṇa vyañjana paryaya of soul (5) Svabhāva dravya vyañjana paryaya of matter (6) Svabhāva guna vyañjana paryaya of matter (7) Vibhāva dravya vyañjana paryaya of matter (8) Vibhava guḥa vyañjana paryaya of matter
(1) Svabhāva dravya vyañjana paryaya of soul:
The omniscient soul embodied or disembodied is free from the four obscuring (ghati) karmas and the consequent passions. He is free from the obstruction of the obscuring (ghāti) karma matter and the quivering (calana or parispanda) of his space points1 caused by passions. In such a condition the vyañjana paryāya is free to impose its rhythmic wave pattern evenly to all the extremities of the soul's space points. Even extension of the statiorary waves and the absence of quivering of the soul's space points (calana or parispanda of the jiva pradeśa), result in the soul's surface assuming a mirror-like perfect medium for image reflection. Absence of energy-obstructing (virya-antarāya) karma in the soul endows the vyañjana paryaya to function with infinite vigor and speed. This is svabhava dravya vyañjana paryaya of the soul. Wave cycles of vyañjana paryāya happens every instant (samaya)2.
(2) Svabhava guṇa vyañjana paryaya of soul:
The waves of infinite vigour and speed of the svabhava dravya vyañjana paryaya set up imperceptible but powerful vibration or disturbance. The disturbance-carrying energy waves expand and spread in all directions from every space point of the soul to all the nooks and corners of the entire universe. Reflected by the infinite objects the waves bounce
1 Space point (pradesa) means that indivisible space occupied by a single elementry particle of matter.
2 Instant (samaya) means that indivisible time taken by an elementary particle in slow motion (manda gati) to move from its own space point to the very next. The speed of electron in orbit is stated as 120 miles per second which can be assumed as manda gatt of a paramanu or elementary particle. With this background we can imagine that an instant (samaya) will be even less than a million-millionth of a microsecond.