Jaina World of Non Living

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

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The Jaina world of Non-living
external causes. The external causes may be substantive, spatial, temporal and modal. Despite these causes, the original reality does not undergo basic or newer modification. The internal cause is a potential factor for this representating its capacity for modification. The internal and external causes lead to origination and destruction in entities. If there is absence of either of these causes, the modifications will not occur just as in the case of lentil cereals kept in storage and non-cookable ones put in boiling water. The realities are those entities which undergo modifications due to these causes. With reference to differential standpoint, one differentiates the subject and object. The differentiation can be realised between the existence due to non-departure from ones own nature of specific class and its modifications evident through affirmative causes involving frequent originations and destructions. When the realities are considered with respect to objective case, there is grammatical suffix 'ya' to the root 'dru'. When they are considered with respect to subjective case, there is again a grammatical suffix 'ya' to the root 'dru' under compacting conditions.
Alternatively, despite the nature of continuation of originating and destructive modifications, an entity which remains in permanence due to its continuous subjectivity or substantivity is known as 'dravya' or reality. We learn this meaning because the roots having a meaning 'to go' have also the meaning 'to know'. 2. Alternatively, Jainendra grammar (4.1.158) has an aphorism 'Dravyam Bhavye'. This should be taken as an origin of this term 'Dravya' which is an indeclinable word on the basis of a simily. A 'Dravya' or reality is that which is like a raw wood. What does the simily mean?
The word 'dru' means a raw wood which does not have knots or other types of hardness. It can be converted into any desired shapes with the help of instruments of the carpenter. Similarly, the entity of any reality also undergoes different modifications like the raw wood because it has a nature of self-modification and can be modified subjectively and instrumentally like obtaining water during digging of earth shells. This statement is based on the view of non-difference between the subject and
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