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The Jaina world of Non-living
"The activity and reality are different because they are objects of different types of knowledge like the Sahya and Vindhya mountains."
The aphorism 5.1 mentions non-living bodies indicating the existence of spacepoints in them. However, it does not mention about the number of spacepoints. The following aphorism 5.8 is meant for describing about their numerical nature. Asankhyeyõh Pradeśāh Dharmã-adharma-eka-jivānām 5.8
The realities of medium of motion, rest and single living beingeach have innumerable spacepoints 5.8. 1. Numeration means counting. Differentiation with respect to own or alien characteristics is the specificity or particularity. The term 'innumerable' means transgression of a particular number. Alternatively, the 'innumerable' is a number which cannot be counted by anybody. 2. Q. If the 'innumerable' number cannot be counted by anybody, there could not be any omniscient being. A. This is not correct. The omniscient being knows the 'innumerable' in that form only as he knows the 'infinite' in 'infinite' form. The omniscient being knows the entities as they are. Thus, there is no loss of omnisecience. There are three types of numerical measures to learn about things - numerable, innumerable and infinite. The term innumerable indicates non-maximal and non-minimal innumerability or intermediate or middle category of innumerability. 3-4. The term 'Pradesa' or spacepoint is defined as that entity which could be numerically described. This description is based on the unit area occupied by a single substantive (ultimate) atom (to be defined later). The realities of single living being, medium of rest and motion - are all similar with respect to numericality of spacepoints. They all have innumerable spacepoints. The realities of medium of motion and rest are inactively pervading the space. The living reality has also similar spacepoints. However, it has a contracting and expanding nature and, hence, its karmic body may be fine or gross occupying different number of spacepoints. Moreover, when there is the world-filling soulextrication, the eight central spacepoints of the living being occupy the
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