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A.
This is not correct. It is postulated that the liberated souls have their spacepoints just a little less than the body they occupied before liberation. There is neither less nor more of the spacepoints than this as there is no karmic cause for their contraction and expansion. Hence, the liberated souls can also not occupy 1, 2 ..... etc. spacepoints in space like mattergies do.
10. Q. It is observed that the realities like medium of motion and rest etc. (possibly all non-mattergic realities) are non-different from each other on the following counts:
Their location is the same. They are coexistent in space.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
The Jaina world of Non-living
Their shapes are the same.
They have a tri-timal existence.
Their qualities are same as observed by omniscients.
Their mutual contact is the same-wholly touching each other. Their occupancy is also the same as all are pervasive in universe
space.
(g)
All the them are non-material, substantive and congnisable. Their non-difference leads one to presume that they should be taken as one only.
A. This is not correct. Their difference is self-proved by the points of non-difference themselves as detailed. Had they not been different, how this commonality could be observed ? There is no common characteristics in one entity. Moreover, as the colour, taste etc. co-exist timally and locationally in the same entity and still they are not taken as one, similarly, the realities of medium of rest and motion etc. should also be taken as different from each other as they have their specific characteristics.
Supplementary Notes
1.
(a)
The commentary deals with the following points :
The embodied soul (living) has a nature of expansion and contraction due to its beginningless materiality on account of its karmic body association. It leads it to become fine or gross occupying innumerableth part to whole of the occupied space like drying-up of
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