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The Jaina world of Non-living
Moreover, if the soul is wholly associated with mind and as mind is atomic, the soul will also have atomic nature. Alternatively, the mind will have pervasive nature like the soul. If mind associates partially with the soul, it will lead to accept that soul has spacepoints. Thus, some of the spacepoints of soul will be with knowledge and some will be without knowledge due to fourfold, threefold or twofold contact point of the factors of soul, mind, sense and object. This will mean that the part of the soul, which is devoid of knowledge, could not be called so because of non-existence of its characteristics. Thus, the soul will not be pervasive. Similarly, if mind is associated wholly with the senses, it will mean either the atomicity of the senses like mind or the mind will be bigger equivalent to the size of the senses. Partial association will lead to spacepoints of the mind. It will not remain atomic.
Secondly, the Vaiseṣikas postulate separateness of quality and the qualified and permanence of mind. Thus, it cannot have association and dissociation. Hence, it will have no association either with the soul or senses. If it has these qualities, it will lose its permanence. In fact, the quality and the qualified are not non-separate. Moreover, when the mind is non-conscious, how can it have a conscience to associate with the soul or sense. Hence, it cannot have association with definite entities.
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The mind works like the karmas (action).
A. This cannot be so. The karmas may have conscious nature due to their colouring with human volitions. It may have non-conscious nature due to its substantively mattergic nature. Thus, the illustration of karma is adverse.
Moreover, the mind is fine. Hence, it cannot perceive the colour etc. due to senses of sight etc. The atomic mind cannot occupy the whole sense of sight etc. Thus,one will have the capacity to see only those portions of the objects through senses which are occupied by the mind. One cannot see the whole object. However, we perceive the objects as a whole. Hence, the mind cannot be proved to be atomic.
25. Q. The mind is a fast moving entity despite its atomic nature. Hence, it can cause to see the whole objects.
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