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Letter 7
Nature of Attribute Letter 7
April 18, 1994. Dear Reena & Mona,
Blessings & Best Wishes. Time is really fleeting ! Mona, It's already two months since your wedding. We had distributed some books namely rar, facis at 1,214
por sit amet, at 96141, FIAT Samar (all in Marathi) as gifts in your wedding. Have you read them ? Your daddy has translated other four to five books in Marathi, and has dispatched them to Jaipur. On completion, I shall surely dispatch their copies to each one of you.
In letter nos. 5 and 6 we learned about the nature of cosmos and the nature of the substance. Let's review them at a glance to revise.
Conglomeration of six substances is called cosmos. In this cosmos there are following substances : (1) One Akash Dravya (2) One Dharma Dravya (3) One Adharma Dravya (4) Infinite Jeev Dravya (5) Infinite times infinite Pudgal Dravya (6) Innumerable Kaal Dravya. Right in the centre of Akash Dravya where all these substances are existing is called the Lok.
All these infinite infinite substances have their own independent existence and identity. That is why two substances can never merge into one substance nor can a substance split into two or more parts. They are all accommodating each other in the same space. And despite accommodating each other in the same space they do not become one with each other.
All these substances are etemal, because a substance can neither be created nor destroyed. In other words the existence of a substance has no beginning and no end. It just exists !
The mass of attributes is called a substance or Dravya. Each substance has infinite attributes. The attributes can never be separated from the substance. Each attribute exists in the entire substance and it is there all the time forever. Therefore it is called Nityatadatmya relation forretaria da. That means the attributes cannot be separated from the substances.
The infinite attributes existing in the substance have Avinabhavi relationship afariturat Hala with each other. That means whenever there is one attribute present, all the other attributes must be there all the time. So despite the fact that in the scriptures Atma is said or referred as Dnyanmaya 1749 i.e. having the attribute of sentience, all the other infinite attributes are also present there at the same time.
Today we will try to understand what is the exact nature of the attribute i.e. Guna. What is an attribute ? That which exists in each and
