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THE TAINA GAZETTE the soul. In this world there is neither absolute origination nor absolute destruction-both of them are simultaneous. Alter all Samsara is only an activity of the soul-substance moving through the four modes of life. The karma-tinted soul develops further modifications which give rise to fresh karmic energy. The soul manifests consciousness which results into knowledge, manifold karmas and fruit which is either happiness or misery.
The substance is either living or non-living, the former characterised by manifestation of consciousness and the latter constituted out of insentient matter. The sphere of vaccuum is full with six kinds of substances and it is known as physical space where the whole objectivity endowed with the trio of origination, permanence and destruction, undergoes modifications collectively or individually. Some substances are perceptible while the others are not. From atom to the gross lurp, matter is endowed with sense-qualities and the sound which is only a form of matter is of various kinds. Of the formless-the sky gives space, Dharma and Adharma function as the fulcrums of motion and rest respectively. Time effects change : the soul is all sentiency. All the five substances have innumerable spacial points while the time has nil. The sky pervades both physical and superphysical worlds. The physical world is full with the rest of the substances, time taking resort to soul and matter. All substances have spacial points while the atom which is a unit has none. Samaya is a duration of time required for crossing from one to other spacial point and itself has no spacial point. Pradesa is that much portion of the sky which is occupied by an atom. All substances have one to infinite spacepoints while kala possesses only Samaya. Kalanu though endowed with the trio, preserves its initial nature. A substance without a space-point is mere void.
The knowing agent of this objectivity is the being endowed with four life-essentials, namely, senses, trio of activities, period of life and respiration, which are the results of karmas, being bound with which the soul enjoys the fruits there of and incurs fresh karmic bondage. Harm to beings through infatuation and
hatred entails fresh bondage. Attachment to worldly objecte Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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