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39. Secondly, if the motion and rest are accepted as due to vital force, the liberated beings or souls will not have their natural motion and rest as they have destroyed all their karmas of merit and demerit (which are due to vital force). However, their motion and rest are there. Thus, these properties cannot be due to any vital force. 40. Q. The realities of medium of motion and rest cannot cause motion and rest in entities because they are non-mattergic. A. There is no example which could substantiate this logic of noncausality due to non-mattergicity. It is observed that space causes accommodation of all realities despite its non-mattergic nature. Similarly, the primordial matter of Sānkhyas, causes changes to produce gross world to serve the man, despite its non-mattergic nature. Similarly, the non-mattergic consciousness of the Buddhas also serves the cause of producing form and mind. The non-mattergic quality of vital force (Apūrva) of Mimānsakas manifests itself in various forms to serve the human beings. The non-mattergic mediums of motion and rest can also, in the same way, cause motion and rest in general. Supplementary Notes 1. The commentary deals with the following points : (a) It defines motion and rest as presence and absence of translational motion. (b) It supports the composition of the aphorism 5.17 on grammatical basis- such as justification of dual number and possessive case etc. The aphorism may have nominative, accusative and abstract cases and related meanings. (c) The medium of rest and motion are general and auxiliary causes only like water for movement of fish or shadow for resting of tired traveller (as has been said earlier too). However, there may or may not be instrumental causes in all cases. (d) These functions cannot be attributed to non-mattergic, pervasive and hollow space as it has a designated function of accommodation of all realities. Moreover, it will involve loss of division between occupied and unoccupied cosmos. It will also result in contradiction of different
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