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The Jaina world of Non-living
"The realities of medium of rest and motion occupy the whole occupied space because they serve the activities of rest and motion of the entities. The illustration here could only be negative." If it is not accepted, there will be rest and motion in unoccupied space also which is contrary to the Jina instructions.
The next aphorism 5.14 is intended to describe the specific accommodation of atomic, numerable and innumerable spacepointed tangible mattergic realities :
Ek-pardešādişu Bhājyah Pudgalānām 5.14
The mattergic reality is accommodated in one, two etc. spacepoints in space 5.14. 1. The first term in the aphorism should be understood to mean a group involving from the beginning of one to many spacepoints. How do we learn to mean this ? Because all the spacepoints have the same class. It may be illustrated by the term like 'Somsarmā etc.' which involves Somsharma also along with others. Alternatively, we borrow the word 'spacepoint' here from the earlier aphorism so that it becomes a group. Thus, the first term includes the unit spacepoint also. 2. The second term 'Bhājyah' means alternatable, divisible or separatable. This means that the accommodation of mattergies is alterable. Thus, a single atom will have accommodation in one spatial spacepoint. If two atoms are bound, they will occupy single spacepoint. However, if they are non-bound, they will occupy two spacepoints. If three atoms are bound, they may occupy one or two spacepoints. However, if they are non-bound, they occupy three spacepoints. Similarly, the numerable, innumerable and infinite spacepoints of the aggregates are accommodated in one, numerable and innumerable spatial spacepoints of universe space depending on their bound and unbound states. 3-4. Q. It is all right if many spacepoints of non-mattergic realities like medium of rest etc. are accommodated in a single spatial spacepoint. However, this could not be possible in case of many spacepoints of mattergic realities as it will lead to unity of multiple spacepointed
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