Jaina World of Non Living

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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The Jaina world of Non-living
much details. All the above realities are independent and different from each other.
8. The categories of non-living realities can not be dealt with under the concepts of monism of words as they are neither heard nor there occur blowing of ear membrane or burning on speaking words like loud sounds or fire. Similarly, they can also not be dealt with under the concept of Brahmic monism as it will involve livingness of the non-living entities.
9. It must be kept in mind that the non-living reality does not only indicate the aggregated or visible forms of mattergy (like noumenal or derived elements of Buddhas or Cärvākas), it also involves nonmaterial entities of medium of motion, medium of rest, space and time. The visible forms are represented only by the mattergic entity of the Jainas. Thus, the Jainas have two forms of the non-living reality: (a) material (mattergy) and (b) non-material (other four entities). Sankhyan Nature approximates the Jaina variety of the non-living reality.
10. The commentator Aklanka has defined all the four non-living realities specified in the aphorism 5.1 in conformity with ancient canonical and procanonical tradition as below:
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The medium of Motion: Neutral and auxiliary cause for motion of mattergy and the living beings like water for moving fish. It is eternal, extensive and non-material.
(2) The medium of Rest: Neutral and auxiliary cause of rest of mattergy and the living like the shade of tree for the rest of a tired traveller. It is also eternal, extensive and non-material.
(3) Space: the accommodator of all the realities including itself, substratum for all the substrates. It is also eternal, extensive and non-material.
(4) Mattergy : A reality having quality of combination and decombination and possessing four co-existing attributes of touch, taste, smell and colour. It is extensive and material.
The time has also been mentioned as a reality in 5.39. This is serving as auxiliary cause for maintaining continuity and modificational
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