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The Jaina world of Non-living
1. The aphorism 5.10 has the word 'ca' (and) which is meant for inclusion of 'infinity' with the other two types of spacepoints mentioned. Thus, the aphorism will mean that mattergic realities have three types of spacepoints. Some mattergies like diatomics etc. have numerable spacepoints while others may have innumerable and infinite spacepoints. 2. Q. The mattergies have infinite-times-infinite spacepoints also. The aphorism 5.10 should include this variety also.
A. The is not correct. The infinity has been taken in the general term and this variety is included in it. The infinity has three varieties- (i) peripheral, (ii) yoked and (iii) infinite-times-infinite. All these varieties are involved in the general infinity. Hence, there is no necessity for additional inclusion.
3. Q. The universe has infinite spacepoints and it is the substratum of aggregates composed of infinite and infinite-times-infinite spacepoints. This seems to be a contradiction and there cannot be infiniteness in the universe.
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A. This is not correct. This is possible because of the fine type of occupancy character of the mattergies. The fine atoms etc. transformed in such a fine way that even the infinite-times-infinite atoms can be accommodated in each spacepoint of space. Secondly, their accommodating capacity is also un-interrupted due to their subtlety. Hence, there is no inconsistency in occupancy of each spatial spacepoints even by infinite-times-infinite spacepoints of mattergy.
4-5. Moreover, this is not an absolute principle that grosser substrate cannot be accommodated in smaller substratum. The mattergies have a specific property of huge aggregation. Thus, many mattergic units could occupy a smaller area. For example, we find that many smelling particles (or molecules) are pervading in a small bud of champaka flower due to their subtle contracting capacity. The same particles are seen spread over all directions of space when they are in grosser aggregations (of finer nature). Similarly, we also observe that subtler particles (of carbon) found in dried cowdung cakes or mass of woods occupy a large volume when burnt by fire in terms of smokes in all directions. It is in the same
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