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The Jaina world of Non-living
22. Moreover, in practice, the worldly living being is always composite because he is bonded with karmas from beginningless time. His karmic bonding makes him spacepointed. However, the living being is non-space-pointed because of his innate quality of consciousness with respect to pure or ideal standpoint. Supplementary Notes
The commentary deals with the following points : (a) The etymological and general meanings of the terms 'innumerable, spacepoints and the mentioned realities'. (b) The justification of composing the aphorism in the existing form. (c) The justification for the concept of spacepointism of different realities on primary basis through logic and many illustrations." (d) The validity of the concept of 'innumerability' and 'spacepoints' on the basis of 'omniscients' authority, whose infinite insight into nonintelligibles make us believe in these commonly non-perceptible entities. (e) The spacepointness of the three realities may be considered with respect to their substantiality and modality. Substantively, they are monospacepointed and modally they are multiple-spacepointed. This is also applicable to the disembodied and embodied living beings. 2. The Sevtämbara version has two aphorisms (5.7-8) in place of one here to convey the same meaning. However, this commentary does not have any questions about it as in many other cases. Does this mean that these two aphorisms in S-version were not current during Akalanka's time? 3. The term 'Pradesa' has been translated in many terms but we will use 'spacepoint' for it. It is a minimum distance in three dimensional space which serves a primary unit for dimensional measurements. All other canonical units of length are derived from it. The ultimate atom has been postulated as having a dimension of one spacepoint. Thus, a spacepoint is represented by the area occupied by one atom. The time taken by an atom to move from one spacepoint to the neighboring spacepoint forms the base for time units. The term 'atom' here should be taken to mean canonical ultimate atom only.
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