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Letter 14
identity and nature constant without any change. One substance can not change or merge into any other substance.
Collection of infinite attributes is called a substance. Not a single attribute out of these infinite attributes can separate itself. Such a power exists in each substance. Even if a single attribute falls apart and mixes with other substances or gets destroyed then the collection of the attributes will break up or fall apart which would amount to the end of that substance. And such end may ultimately lead to the end of the cosmos itself. But this can not happen.
Each substance has power of not transforming into any other substance. Also because of this power one attribute does not get destroyed or transformed into any other attribute. The power which holds the collection of infinite attributes to be same for ever is called Agurulaghutva Guna.
Aguru 3756 + Alaghu 36TY - 'A' 37 means no, guru means large and laghu means small. So this power does not allow the substance to become smaller or bigger, but keeps it as it is for ever. This is clear. But how do we believe it or prove it? We will prove it with the help of the principles which we have learnt so far in the earlier letters. For that read letter no. 7 titled 'Nature of Attribute'. There we have discussed that each substance has its own Chatushtaya i.e. 'Swadravya', 'Swakshetra', 'Swakaal' and 'Swabhava'.
Each substance itself is Swadravya. Its area is its Swakshetra. Its modification is its Swakaal and its infinite attributes are its Swabhava. Bhava means Guna or attribute. Now we will classify this with an example.
Let's take two substances 'A' and 'B'. Say 'A' would be a glass and 'B' to be water. Substance 'A' has its own Swachatushtaya and similarly substance 'B' has its own. But from the point of view of substance 'A' the Chatushtaya of 'B' is Para Chatushtaya. It is Paradravya gan, Parakshetra परक्षेत्र, Parakaal परकाल and Parabhava परभाव. Here Para पर means something other than itself.
Swachatushtaya of any one substance can not enter into any Parachatushtaya. Between the two there is absence or negation of being each other). That is why this substance 'A' can not become substance 'B' and can not do the activity of the other substance as well. In other words, there is absence of one substance in all other infinite substances.
'A'- The Swadravya of glass is in the glass. 'B'- The Swadravya of water is in water. The Swakshetra of glass is in the glass.
