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The Jaina world of Non-living
its fibers. In contrast, the soul does not have its spacepoints caused due to the combination of other entities. But it has non-causal spacepoints. The spacepoint of an atom is non-combinational, hence it is not non-eternal caused due to recombination of components. However, the atom is noneternal with respect to its combinational composites. Similarly, the spacepoints of soul are also non-combinational, and, hence, it is noneternal due to recombination of spacepoints despite its being composite and spacepointed. But it is non-eternal only due to its modes of destinity
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It is due to the non-causal spacepoints of soul that one does not observe the special characteristics of pain and pleasure etc. in each of its spacepoints. These are observed only in case of those entities whose spacepoints are combinational like earthen pots etc. Had it been so in the case of soul, there will be the possibility of many souls in a single body. Hence, as a non-composite atom has only one class of character of colour like white etc. at a time, similarly, the non-causal non-componental soul also has only one class of special character of pain and pleasure at a time. Thus, the charge that the heat and rain effect the leather, and not the sky. does not hold good for the Jainas as it has already been pointed out that they have polyviewstic approach regarding the materiality and nonmateriality and eternality and non-eternality of soul. (Substantively, the soul is non-material and eternal while it is material and non-eternal modally). If the soul is like the leather, it becomes non-eternal. If it is like the space, all activities of merit and demerit will prove useless (as it is. permanent) -
8. It is accepted that the worldly living has small and large body depending on its karmic body and that the minimum size, the embodied soul may have, is equal to an innumerableth part of an Angula (finger tip). This size consists of innumerable spacepoints (and not 1,2 etc.) which the soul occupies. Hence, the embodied soul cannot occupy one, two etc. spacepoints as the mattergies do.
9. Q. The liberated souls have no body and, therefore, they may occupy 1,2... etc. spacepoints in universe-space.
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