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192 JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE the entity would be found unchanged. This work of nature can be explained more clearly by taking an instance of a building or a village. The owner of a building and his successors, go on replacing the damaged parts of the building In future one day will come when the original building would have been replaced by new parts, but from the point of view of people, it is the same building, which was built hundreds of years ago But the chain of heredity is not endless and the human energy is limited; otherwise this bulding also would have been a permanent object (Samsthan), of the physical universe. The nature on the other hand is permanent (endless) and it has no weakness It never runs out of substance. Therefore, whatever entities it wants to keep permanent do remain so Another example is of a village A village or a aty is the collection of people and houses After a century and some more years, all the residents (dwellers) of the village would be changed and after thousand years, the houses too. But it 18 known as the same village Even today we find many such cilies, whose continuous history of 1,000 years as found found It is also probable that there may be cities, whose names, culture, size (area), might have changed nevertheless their geographical (Sthanik) and collective (Samudayık) existences maght have ats beginning with that of the human races. We may not recognise them as they were, but in the realm of nature it is not impossible. This work of nature is intellectually perceptible (Budhigamya). In the same
