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Letter 7 manifestations of substance. Whatever may be the manifestation, all the infinite attributes are always present in it.
For instance the attributes of yellow colour, weight and lustre of the gold are always present in all the parts, in other words they are present in every part of the gold. But they are also there irrespective of its any manifestation. May it be a necklace or a ring or a bangle, these attributes will always be present.
Now, we will think about our own substance. I am a Jeev or soul substance. I possess infinite attributes and they exist in each and every part of my soul substance. They are fully spread out throughout the entire substance. Whatever form ( manifestation ) I may be in, the number of attributes will always be infinite.
After studying the nature of the attributes of each soul it dawns on us that they will always remain same in number. And this thought is very relaxing and comforting. The soul, may be in any phase or form. It may be a smallest, one sense organism or the minutest species of a living being or it may be an ordinary human being or a Siddha, each of them will all the time have infinite attributes. They will never diminish nor increase, irrespective of their forms.
Are you not comfortable and at ease by knowing the definition of Guna or attributes ?
Because in day to day life, specifically student life we are all the time worried about getting more · Gunas'.e. marks in our exams or evaluation by others. But in case of these Guna i.e. attributes we don't have to worry about that.
Same is the case with the little wealth we possess. We are continuously thinking of ways and methods of increasing it further and are under great stress regarding its safety. But when we realise the nature of the substance and its attributes, all our anxiety and worry vanishes, because no one can withdraw or take away the attributes from the substance. Therefore the tension of increasing or loosing the attributes doesn't arise at all.
Today, alongwith the definition of the attributes we will learn about Swachatushtaya ( Frage). Each thing or substance has its own i.e. Swa a four dimensions i.e. Chatushtaya ageu of existence. They are (1) Dravya (2) Kshetra (3) Kaal (4) Bhava. ( Fan, T, TA, TA ).
We now know that Dravya means the substance. Kshetra means the area it occupies. That is equivalent to the area the substance or its infinite attributes occupy.
Ordinarily we see that people staying in the same house occupy different rooms. But in case of attributes of the substance, here all the
