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The Jaina world of Non-living
motion and rest are not the primary causes of these activities. It is just like a helping stick for the blind to walk through his own thigh-force. The above realities are, thus, neutral causes rather than catalytic causes for moving or stopping the living being and mattergies acting on their own potency. Secondly, the sense of the aphorism also indicates the nonsubjectivity of these realities.
A. This is not correct. The two words have been given to clarify the point of succession. If the aphorism did not have these two separate words as above, it would have meant (i) the function of the medium of motion is to cause motion in the living beings and not in mattergy, and (ii) the function of the medium of rest is to cause rest in other realities and not in the living beings according to succession of the terms. However, this is not so. The two words have been used to remove doubt about the above undesirable meanings and to suggest proper meanings. This could be done by specific clarification about the meaning in the explanatory. However, this would have meant unnecessarily a larger text. Thus, two words have been given here to take the appropriate meanings easily.
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20. Q. The reality of space is all-pervading. It also has empty points too. The function of movement and rest should be accrued to this reality. Why we postulate separate realities for these processes?
A. The reality of space is the substratum of all the other five realities of mattergy etc. just like any city is the base of a house. The function or quality of an entity could not be possible for any other entity. Otherwise, the qualities of burning and liquidity etc. associated with fire and water etc. could also be assumed for the single entity of earth only. Moreover, it is observed that the fish do not move on earth in the absence of water despite the fact that there is always space there. If space could have been the cause of movement of fish, they could have moved on earth too. Similarly, the motion and rest of the living beings and mattergies take place not due to presence of space but due to specific presence of the realities of medium of motion and rest.
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Secondly, if space could have been the cause of motion and rest, they should be observed in non-universe-space also. This would' mean
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