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The Jaina world of Non-living
1. The term 'space' has already been defined. The word accommodation' is an abstract noun. It means 'giving place' or 'entry into'. 2. Q. "The swan lives in water'. In this statement, the swan and water have no eternal relationship. Similarly, the accommodation of realities of medium of motion and rest by space should also be devoid of such relationship. A. This is not correct. The statement is formal or conventional as there is no motion. The formalism is due to pervasion. It is just like to state that space is all pervasive despite no motion. Similarly, because of the pervasion of these realities in space everywhere, it is called that they are accommodated in space despite the absence of accommodational action. 3. Q. It is observed the substratum-substrate relationship exists in substances like plums in the bowl which have separate existence by themselves. However, the realities of space, medium of motion and rest have no prior-posterior relationship and, hence, there could be no substratum-substrate relationship among them. A. This is not correct. This type of relationship exists even in the case of non-separate substance like lines on a palm. Similarly, it is possible here too. 4. Moreover, we observe that the divine faculties of God are nonseparate from God or divinity. Still there is a practice of statement like 'divine faculties exist in God'. Similarly, the statement regarding accommodation of the realities in space is also logically designable. 5. The polyviewistic concept also supports the above statement. There is no absolutism about the non-separateness of eternally related medium of motion and rest. They may be both - eternally related or nonrelated and separated and non-separated. For example, when substantive standpoint is preferred over modal standpoint, there is neither origination nor annihilation, hence, the realities are eternally related and nonseparate. Similarly, when modal standpoint is preferred, there is origination and annihilation of modes of these realities, hence, they may be called eternally non-related and separate ones. This also proves that in
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