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The Jaina world of Non-living
5. All the objects of senses may either be desirable or undesirable depending upon whether they are subject to attachment or detachment under specific conditions. 6. The commentary 5.20.12 indicates that 5.19 and 5.20 have not been joined together to avoid confusion of taking four effects of earlier four causes. However, there could be another reason for independent aphorisms. The bodies etc. (5.19) are due to manifesting-in-matter type species of physique-making karma while the pleasure, pain etc. are due to manifesting-in-soul type species of feeling-producing and life-span karmas. This could be explained in other words also. The living entity is sthe material cause of pain and pleasure etc. where feeling-producing karma is only instrumental. In contrast, the mattergies are the material causes of body etc. It is due to this that they have specific names. The manifesting-in-birth type of life-span species are counted in manifesting-in-soul type species. 7. There are two types of death - reducible by different causes like disease, accident etc. and non-reducible. While reducible death is definitely due to generally perceptible mattergic entities, the non-reducible death is also due to fine karmic mattergic entities - their bond duration and destruction and intakes. 8. It is clear that this aphorism also deals with empirical or worldly soul as the disembodied pure soul has no karmic veils at all.
The continuous promotary function of the four non-living realities have been described. Do the living beings have the same functions or different ones ? The aphorism 5s.21 indicates them :
Parasparo-pagraho Jīvānām 5.21
The function of the living beings is to support each other 5.21
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