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Letter 12
green mango's stages were changing at every samay. And we presume that it ripened because we had very carefully preserved it in the hay.
Then how did the raw mango turn ripe ? The true cause is due to its internal cause of Dravyatva, which is present in the mango itself.
Secondly Kaal Dravya is the instrumental cause. In every attribute the modifications take place independently. In the colour attribute itself modification green changes to yellow modification. This change is brought about by the colour attribute itself. In the taste attribute, the modification of sourness changes into the modification of sweetness, who brought about this change! It is the work of taste attribute. In the touch attribute, the modification of hardness changes into softness, the cause is the touch attribute itself.
Thus each substance is independent. Similarly each and every attribute is also independentally performing its own activities, not only this, each and every modification happening at each samay is also independent because it evolves as per its own worthiness ( eligibility ).
The present modification is not caused by the previous one, nor is the present one cause of the future modifications. The moment one modification extinguishes, a new one evolves. Now, how can the modification which has ceased to exist, be the creator of the new modification ?
Now you will say that at least we can consider Kaal Dravya to be responsible for the modification. To put it in your words precisely, it would be, "Can't you take Kaal Dravya as the doer of the modification ?" The answer is No, and the reason behind it is that Kaal Dravya is only an instrumental cause. And you know that the external instrumental cause actually does nothing in the activity of the substance. We will see, how this is possible.
At every samay, modifications are taking place in each and every substance. Even in the Kaal Dravya, owing to its Dravyatva attribute modifications are continuously going on ( taking place).
One single modification of Kaal Dravya is called samay. Such innumerable samayas make one second,60 seconds make a minute. Thus minutes, hours, days, months and year indicate how much time has elapsed. This is known as Vyavahar Kaal ( 46 bist).
In one second, innumerable modifications take place in Kaal Dravya. Suppose, for example we presume that 100 modifications took place in: one second. That means, since each modification in every substance takes place in one samay, all the other substances also had their modifications 100 times in one second. This process of modification is carried on in each substance due to their very own Dravyatva attribute
