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The Jaina world of Non-living
living being. However, many living beings are referred here. Therefore, there should not be singular number here. 40. It has already been pointed out that the term 'Pudgala' (mattergy) means an entity which has a property of association and dissociation. 41. The word 'function' is abstract noun. Therefore, there is no mention of any other subject. However, the possessive case of the term 'Pudgala' serves the purpose here. This means that mattergies assist the souls through transformations like body etc. The karmically engrossed souls are active and they receive and accept assistance of body etc. through bondage with them and experience them. If the soul is absolutely taken as inactive and supremely pure, there will be no bondage through body etc. and there will be no experience of their assistance. Similarly, there will be no world because of the absence of causes for activity. How there could be liberation in the absence of the world ? Supplementary Notes 1. The following points are dealt with in this commentary : (a) The supporting logic for the order of different terms in the aphorism 5.19 as bodies, speech etc. (b). The justification why other senses have not been included in 5.19 besides vocal sense. The fixed senses like eyes etc. are not in the form of soul- spacepoints as they arise due to the fruition of physique- making karma of limbs and minor limbs. Had it not been so, the mind and vocal sense should also not have been mentioned in this aphorism. (c) The karmic body is not non-mattergic (as it has no form) as its fruition is dependent on its contact with mattergic objects like jaggery and thorns etc. (d) There are two kinds of speech- psychical and physical. The psychical speech represents the potentiality of speech while the physical one is the actual speech through sounds or words. Both of these are mattergic as they depend on fruition of specific karmic mattergies. The same speech is not heard again and again as it is withered away after its first effect. The materiality of sound has also been proved on the basis of its auditory sense perceptibility, transmission, obstruction, interference,
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