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The Jaina world of Non-living
always remain inexpressible like the space. If it is said to go gross with sounds, it looses its eternality as it has undergone a change in nature. There does not also seem to be any obstructor for flash like the darkness for the presence of an earthen pot.
Q.
The darkness is not an object, it is merely the absence of light.
A.
This is wrong. The darkness is material as it undergoes intensity changes (from dusk to dawn) and colour changes like the blue colour. Hence, it could serve as obstructor in seeing the pitcher.
If the flash (Sphota) does not exist independently, it cannot become expressible. It would become an effect as it is produced by juxtaposition of sounds. Thus, sounds cannot become expressive one for the flash of sphota.
Moreover, there is a question whether the first alphabetical sound is expressive for the whole or part of the 'Sphota'. If it expresses for the whole, the other following sounds become useless. If it expresses the part of the 'Sphota', it looses its partlessness character.
Further, there is another point whether the expressive sounds serve the cause of (a) sphota (b) ear or (c) both. They cannot serve the sphota in the way the smells of soils are expressed by watering, because it is eternal and non-corporeal. It cannot undergo any change.
The sound can also not serve the ear like collyrium to the eye. It serves to remove some defects of the eye. In contrast, sounds can neither improve upon the deafness of the ear nor change the quality of the impaired ear. If it is said that sounds serve the healthy hearing sense organ, there is no other service to it except to perceive the meaning. When this purpose is served by the sounds themselves, what is the use of Sphota, then?
Similarly, no service could be performed by sounds to both sphota and the ear simultaneously, as the above pointwise flaws will
accrue.
Again, the sounds cannot cause expression of 'sphota' as they neither exist after their origination instant nor they exist at pre-origin instant. However, if it is pointed out that sounds cause expression to 'Sphota' despite their being momentary, what is the harm, then, in
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