Book Title: Jain Tattva Parichay
Author(s): Ujjwala D Shah
Publisher: Veetrag Vani Prakashak

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________________ 48 Letter 7 infinite attributes occupy the same space and all of them are occupying the same whole space at all the time. That means the area occupied by one attribute, the same area is also occupied by all the other attributes. So the area of the substance is the same as the area which its attributes occupy. e.g. the area occupied by a substance, say a piece of gold, same area is occupied by its all the attributes like yellow colour, heaviness, luster etc. Now after knowing the two aspects of Dravya and Kshetra we will see what is Kaal and Bhava. Kaal means its specific modification i.e. Parinaman or Paryay परिणमन or पर्याय. We will talk about its details in our next letter. And Bhava means its attributes or Guna about which we are discussing now. When we say that each substance has its own four dimensions we mean that it has (1) its own Dravya or substance i.e. Swadravya (tagar) (2) its own area i.e. Swakshetra (F) (3) its own state of modification or Paryay i.e. Swakaal ( t ) (4) and its own attributes or Gunai.e. Swabhava ( T ). The very definition of Guna or attribute will prove the term Swachatushtaya uge. That which exist in the total area i.e. Kshetra of the substance i.e. Dravya in all its modifications i.e. Kaal is called attribute i.e. Bhava. This establishes that each substance has its own four things Chatushtaya. That means existence of each substance is separate and has its own entity, totally different from all other substances, irrespective of the substances being of same category or of different category. This disproves the theory that after death or after salvation the soul merges into the infinite one. Even after attaining Siddha status each soul has its own independent existence. Since each substance (even Jeev substance) has its own Dravya, Kshetra, Kaal and Bhava, the theory that Jeev or soul merges with the Almighty or the Paramatma is proved wrong. Now if you take a tin full of sugar and observe, then you will see that the entity or substance of the tin is in itself, its area is also in the same tin, its manifestation also is in its being tin and its attributes or Bhava/Guna are also in itself. But at the same time substance, area, manifestations and attributes of sugar are in sugar itself. They are different from those of the tin. Now you may do homework. Try to find out these four dimensions in different things like paper and the ink with which the letters are written or printed on those papers. The Swachatushtaya of paper is different and the Swachatuhtaya of ink is different.

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