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Letter 19
Prayojanbhoot Tattva Letter 19
May 11, 1995. Dear Reena & Mona,
Blessings & Best Wishes. During the 10 days' seminar at Poona, Reena you were extremely lucky to get the maximum advantage in such a short period ! For daily you attended 7 hours' lectures, in all 70 hours of study in just 10 days ! You would have never made it even if you had stayed for one whole month with us in Mumbai ! Because while attending the seminar you were not a daughter, but a full fledged student and you really made it.
Mona, I really feel very sorry about you. You couldn't attend the seminar, because you were preoccupied with making arrangements for the opening ceremony of your dispensary. Mona can you make a guess ? Even Reena conducted a 30 minutes' lecture for the kids daily ! Our daily schedule was very busy, your daddy conducted 4 lectures daily i.e. 4 hrs. and myself for 3 hrs., Mr. Dhokar for an hour and Reena for 1/2 an hour. Thus totally lectures were delivered for 8 and 1/2 hours daily.
But don't you worry! In the initial stages you will have ample free time in the dispensary. So take the opportunity to utilise the spare time by studying Jain philosophy and scriptures.
In the letter previous to this one we had discussed about the nature of the attribute of conduct. While studying substances, attributes and their modifications we have seen that attributes occupy the entire or total space of the substance. That means the Dnyan attribute is spread all over the Jeev substance ; same is the case with Shraddha attribute, and Charitra attribute.
This means that whatever is the space occupied by the substance, same space is occupied by its each and every attribute. And whatever space is occupied by the attribute that same space is occupied (covered ) by its modification. So, the conclusion is that whatever is the area of the Jeev substance, same is the area of its conduct attribute and that very same area which is occupied by the conduct attribute is occupied by its modification.
From this we learn that any modification of an attribute of the substance i.e the modification of the substance remains within the boundary limits of area of that particular substance, it can never leave the area of the substance and go out of it. In other words, it can never extend itself beyond the space boundary ( limit ) of its substance.
Now pay attention to what I am trying to explain. Be it the Vibhava Paryay of Charitra attribute i.e. Kashaya ( anger, pride, deceit, greed.) or
