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The Jaina world of Non-living
space also. However, relativistic concepts could identify Jaina space as equivalent to Field following non-Euclidean geometry also. There are some more points of difference mentioned earlier. The absolutist concept, thus, seems to have gone historical.
The aphorism 5.19 is intended to describe the functions of mattergic reality:
Šarira-vāk-manah-prāņā-apanāh pudgalānām 5.19.
The functions of mattergy are the formation of body, speech, mind and respiration 5.19. 1. The body has been mentioned first as all others are substrates for it and there can be no actions related with them without it. Thus, body is the main to be described. 2. The speech follows the body as it helps in moving the man towards desirables through the sense of hearing. 3. Q. This aphorism should also mention other senses like sense of sight etc. as they are also beneficiary for human beings. A. This is not necessary. The later aphorism 5.20 contains the word 'ca' which includes all the other desired beneficiaries not included here. 4. Q. There are spacepoints of soul in the body equivalent to innumerableth part of an UA in size due to destruction-cum-subsidence of knowledge-obscuring and energy-obstructing karmas. These soul spacepoints are designated as the sense of sight etc. Thus, these are not mattergic and they should not be included in the aphorism 5.1915.20. A. This is not correct. All the physical senses are mattergic, realisable due to physique-making karma of limbs and sublimbs. They are beneficiary to the living beings. 5. Moreover, if the non-inclusion of psychic senses of sight etc. is taken as logical due to the above karmic destruction-cum-subsidence, the mind should also not be included in this aphorism 5.19 as it is also dependent on the destruction-cum-subsidence of pseudo-sense-obscuring karma. 6. Q. It is observed that the soul spacepoints designated as sense of sight etc. are fixed and occupy definite space. The mind is not fixed and
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