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The Jaina world of Non-living
Moreever, there are no examples in which a non-corporeal, eternal and partless entity is expressible by a corporeal, non-eternal and composite entity. In the absence of proper illustrations, the probandum of expressibility cannot be proved.
Thus, it should be accepted that the words are in the form of sounds which are of dual-eternal-cum-non-eternal-nature. The sounds are eternal with respect to their mattergic substantivity. They are also temporally stable with respect to their modal general receivablity by the ear at different times. However, they are momentary too with respect to their instant change in types, positions and destructions. This is the flawless postulate of Jaina philosophy. 6. Combination or bonding has also two varieties: (i) natural and (ii) exertional or experimental. 7. Natural bonding takes place irrespective of human efforts. It has two varieties : (i) non-eternal or with beginning and (ii) eternal (beginningless). The non-eternal bonding is due to the smoothness and roughness (positive and negative charges) in mattergy. It is exemplified by electricity, meteorites, rainfall, fire and rainbow etc. The eternal natural bonding has also nine varieties due to the three-fold (tri-typed) single bindings of three realities of medium of motion, rest and space. For example, (i) Bonding of whole, half or quarter part of medium of motion. (ii) Bonding of whole, half or quarter part of medium of rest. (iii) Bonding of whole, half or quarter part of space.
The time atoms are never separated. Hence, their bonding is also eternal. Though the spacepoints of single living being has the property of expansion and contraction, they are never separated. Their bonding is also, therefore, eternal. The realities of medium of motion and rest, space and time are also never mutually separated, they also, therefore, have eternal bonding. Generally, many living beings are also eternally related with many other realities. Similarly, there is generally eternal bondings among the largest aggregates of mattergic realities. Though all realities have bonding nature, however, here, the bonding of mattergy is referred in this aphorism.
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