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Letter 15
Skandha is variable according to its own capacity. Jeev Dravya is not the doer or Karta of shape of the Skandha. That is, why it is wrong to presume and believe that i am the Karta of the size and shape of my body.
A slim lady always takes pride in her slim figure and says that she has maintained the slim shape of her body. And if she becomes fat she always grumbles that despite of her dieting and exercise the body has not gone back to its prior slim shape.
It is all false belief. Because in the first place, she who is actually Jeev Dravya, considers herself to be the body. Her second mistake is that she believes that she can give shape to the body (Pudgal Dravya) and maintain that shape as she wishes. In other words she considers herself as the Karta (doer) of the body. She makes her children strong and healthy by feeding them properly with good food is also her wrong and false belief.
Though the Jeev Dravya can expand and contract, the innumerable pradeshas of the Jeev Dravya remain the same. e.g. The loose raw cotton just from the field looks very big in size, but once compressed in the shape of a pillow the same amount of cotton shrinks into small place. Or a big piece of sponge can be held in your palm when compressed by hand. At that time the total amount of cotton or sponge is same, but it only occupies less space.
And again despite the expansion and contraction of the Jeev Dravya not only its all the innumerable Pradeshas remain same, its infinite attributes also remain same. There are various sizes of Jeevas from the microscopic size to the size of huge animals. But all of them have infinite attributes. The Akash Dravya which consists of infinite pradeshas, Kaal Dravya which is of one pradesh and Pudgal Paramanu which is also of single pradesh each one of them has infinite attributes.
Adinath Bhagwan has height of 500 Dhanushya and Mahavir Bhagwan has height of 7 Hath in their present Siddha state. Despite the difference in their sizes, there is no difference in the modification of their infinite attributes. Both of them are with infinite chatushtaya. The power of their all the infinite attributes is in full bloom. Therefore, one should not consider or believe that the knowledge or bliss of Adinath Bhagwan would be greater than that of Bhagwan Mahavir.
Even in our daily life we see that the intelligence of a person is not dependent or in co-relation with the height and size of the body of that person. That is why a short statured person should not consider himself inferior to the person with good height and good physique nor the later should feel superior to the shorter one.
