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(a)
The eight qualities of dis-embodied living or the salvated ones are (1-4) four infinities of knowledge, conation, bliss and energy and (58) non-materiality, destructional righteousness, accommodability and aheavy-a-lightness (or maintaining equality or constancy in properties). They include the quality of 'a-heavy-a-lightnes' which could be due to destruction of status-determining karma or physique-making karma. As all the salvated beings are equal in all respects of status and non-material physique, their capacity to maintain this property is called the attribute of 'a-heavy-a-lightness'.
Thus, in the first instance, the property seems to be related with the salvated beings only or exclusively with the pure souls.
(b) There is a sub-species of physique-making karma named by this title. It indicates that this property refers to a quality of the living beings in general as karmas are associated with all the worldly beings upto the stage of the Enlightened ones.
(c) Alapa-paddhati of Devasena goes still further. It mentions that this quality is not limited to the living beings alone. It is a general property of all the realites in the world-living and non-living, material and non-material.
The Jaina world of Non-living
It has been stated above that this property maintains individuality of entities despite transformations undergoing in them. According to Panditji, this property maintains the order in the entities so that
No reality transforms into another reality.
No attributes transform into other attributes.
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(b)
(c)
No co-existing entities transgress their nature.
This property seems to be akin to the realities of medium of motion and rest which maintain order in the universe. This also maintains the intrinsic nature of realities. It must, however, be realised that there seems to be no intelligible definition of this property regarding its true nature except that it is a fine attribute which undergoes six-fold imperceptible transformations each on increasing and decreasing side in the intrinsic and extrinsic nature of the entities. However, it has three varieties :
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