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The Jaina world of Non-living
however, it has a separate, specific and expressed meaning with respect to each entity of the living, non-living or their varieties. Thus, the term 'vartanā' means feeling of existence through eternal and non-eternal three-foldly natured modifications of realities of medium of motion etc. during each individual time units. 5. The process of continued existence is inferred from popular examples. We know rice-grain is cooked for making cooked rice. This takes sometime. The process of cooking takes place every moment to yield the final cooked rice after proper time. There is specific state of cooking at each instant. If the cooking did not take place in the first moment, it may also not be there in the second, third and so on moments. Similarly, all the entities should be taken to undergo modifications at every instant which are difficult to be the subject of knowledge and verification. 6. The time is characterised by the process of continued existence. In fact, time is the external factor for causing selfexistent modifications like cooking etc. accomplished by specific activities at different instants of time or Samayas and cooking time etc. Traditionally, we call it as time with different specification. What is the basis for these ways of the world ? This time usage cannot be accidental. This signifies to infer for the existence of some basic real time as the basis of the conventional time. : 7. Q. The continued existence of entities is caused by the motion of the sun and not by time. A. This is not correct as even the solar motion is also caused by time. The solar motion is also referred to as past, present and future in practice. This is the time-based conventional motion. This motion represents existence. This must have a basic cause - and this is what is called time. 8. Q. The existential characteristic is due to spatial spacepoint and not due to time.
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