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The Jaina world of Non-living
body, and the soul becomes dis-embodied, and, thus, there will be possibility of soul's inactivity. A. This is desirable as there is no effect in the absence of cause. The Jainas agree to the absence of activity in the liberated souls which is due to karmas and quasi - karmas. Alternatively, though there is absence of activity due to external causes, there will, however, be internal natural activity like movement upwards like the lamp. Thirdly, there could be inactivity in the soul if the properties of four infinities of bliss, knowledge, conation and energy are not taken as activities. However, they are accepted as activities, hence this is not correct to say that the soul is inactive after disembodiment. 16. Moreover, the activity of the liberated souls will be described later in aphorism 10.6-7 as due to (a) prior impulsive experience, (b) non-attachment, (c) absence of karmic bondage and (d) inherent nature of moving upward like (a) potters' wheel, (b) mud-coat-devoid gourd, (c) stalk of castor-seed and (d) fire flames of fire. 17-18. The mattergic reality has also two types of activity - (a) natural and (b) efforted. This is non - different from the mattergies as there is no other self- characteristics for them. It is just like hotness of fire which is not different from it. There is no other self-based characteristic for fire. Had it been there, there would be no fire in the absence of its characteristic. Similarly, the activity is also non - different from the active entity. Had it not been so, the mattergy would have been nonvibrating and there might not be activity at all. Thus, activity is nondifferent from mattergic reality. 19. Even if the activity is accepted as different from the active mattergy, it should have a designation on combination (of activity with matter) similar to the combination of staff and the staffed (which are independent from each other). But it is not the case as the activity is not observed independently of the active material as in the case of staff and the staffed. 20. Q. Let there be relationship of inherence between action and active entities. This relationship means non-separation between entities and
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