Jain Journal 1969 10

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

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in hand. The energy (virya) of the soul is perpetual and infinite. Because of the existence of virya-antarāya one of the sub-type of obstructing (antarāya) karma it is obscured in the mundane soul and because of this, svabhāva vyañjana paryāya becomes vibhāva. The very functioning of the vyañjana paryāya exhibits the existence of energy. Svabhāva vyañjana paryaya presupposes infinite energy. This is the fourth special attribute of the soul.
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Because the vyañjana paryāya reserves the particular function of providing with the attributes of colour, taste, smell and touch exclusively to matter substance, the souls are devoid of these attributes and the resultant grossness, hindrance, obstruction and weightiness. It means that the souls are possessed of the opposites i.e. absence of grossness, hindrance, obstruction and weightiness. In this way vṛañjana paryāya of the soul stands for the soul's possession of the four positive and four negative special attributes.
Vyañjana paryaya of the soul conforms to the shape and size of the organism in which the soul is born and adopts itself to its growth and diminution. Vycñjana paryāya of matter substance also possesses similar adaptability and adjusts itself to the shape and size the elementary particles assume in different molecules due to the collective effect or pressure of other particles. Therefore this wave motion is spoken of as the deciding factor for the shape (ākāra) and size (pradeśa) or collectively of the pradeśatva guna of these two substances. As the other four substances are devoid of this wave motion they do not undergo or possess capacity for any change in shape, expansion or contraction but remain stable except for that imperceptible change which is decided by the aguru-laghu şaṭ-guni häni vṛddhi paryāya.
The double function of the svabhāva vyañjana paryaya of the omniscient soul transmission and reception of energy waves is vividly explained in Jaina philosophy. Its working may stand comparison with the bat's sonor or the antenna of the radar.
However we should bear in mind that all the wave motions the modern scientists describe are waves of material origin and the energy waves travel in the material medium (such as air) or the energy particles themselves move in the non-material medium (such as ether). On the other hand vyañjana paryāya (of the soul) energy waves are of nonmaterial substance soul's, origin and transmission too is through nonmaterial medium, dharma dravya (equivalent of modern ether). Therefore speed, capacities, laws of reflection and refraction cannot be