Jain Journal 1969 10

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

Page 18

OCTOBER, 1969
happiness (ananta sukha) and infinite energy (ananta virya). The four principal special attributes of matter are colour, taste, smell and touch. These four attributes cause or go hand in hand with grossness, hindrance, obstruction and weightiness-lightness. As souls do not possesses colour, taste, smell and touch they are devoid of these four which thus become the four principal negative attributes of the soul. They are called absence of grossness or extreme subtlety (sukṣmatva), absence of either causing or getting hindrance or non-hindrance (avyabādhatva), absence of obstruction or accommodation (avagāhanatva) and absence of weightiness-lightness (aguru-laghu tva).
These eight attributes, four positive and four negative, are fully explicit in all the liberated souls. But these attributes are latent or limited in all the mundane souls due to the presence of four ghāti and four aghāti karmas in them.
We have already stated how this wave motion enables the soul to possess infinite knowledge and perception. We shall now look into the way in which or how this wave motion helps the soul to possess the other six special attributes.
Vibration or disturbance-carrying energy-waves passing in the medium of air are sound waves. It is stated in science that musical sound-waves are periodic, i.e., that they repeat periodically in time. Music is pleasant. It means that rhythmic vibrations have a bearing on our pleasantness or pleasure.
In the omniscient soul embodied or disembodied, the syabhāva dravya vyañjana paryāya backed up by perpetual infinite energy functions perfectly and most rhythmicaly. Having been freed from the destructive karmas, the omniscient soul is pure and dispassionate. There is no destructive karma matter to give obstruction and make his svabhāva dravya vyañjana paryāya to wobble, nor is there any quiring of his soul's space points due to the absence of passions in him to disturb its rhythm. No other energy-wave is powerful enough either to reinforce or neutralize it with the result that powerful and rhythmic vibration uninterruptedly and eternally happens in the omniscient. He is possessed of infinite happiness to eternity. This is the third principal special attribute of the soul.
Vyañjana paryāya (special stationary wave motion) and virya (energy) are innate nature of the soul. Vyanjana paryāya happens because of existence of energy in the soul. Vyañjana paryaya and virya go hand