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The Jaina world of Non-living
Thus, the‘logical reason of non-perceptibility has doubtful nature and, hence, invalid. The colour etc. can be proved in physical mind by the following inference :
"The mind has colour etc. because it is the instrumental cause of knowledge like the sense of sight." Q. The logical reason here is fallacious because it applies to the non-material sound (or word) which is also the instrumental cause of knowledge. A. This is not correct. The sound is mattergic and, hence, it will have colour etc. Q. Despite the super-sensuous nature of atoms, it is seen that they have tangible aggregates. Hance, it is proper to infer their tangiblity. This is not the case with air and mind as we do not have any tangible effects originating pattern. Hence, they are non-tangibles or non-perceptibles. A. This is not correct. They also have tangible effects. They are atomic in nature and all atoms have capacities to produce tangible effects. There is no class-distinctions among the atoms as postulated by other systems. We see that the moon-stones (earth-atoms) produce water, water produces earthy pearls and sun-stone produces fire. Thus, we do have tangible effects by intermingling of atoms.
The reality of direction is also included in space. The convention of 'this is east, west etc.' in the series of spacepoints is based on the rise and setting of the sun. 4. The aphorism 5.3 has a plural number. It indicates that there are not only many or infinite living beings but they also have many different classes. All varieties of the living beings can be classed into two main categories - (i) worldly living beings and (ii) liberated or salvated beings. The worldly beings have many varieties with respect of fourteen investigations (like destintiy, senses etc.), fourteen spiritual stages (like perversity etc.) and fourteen taxonomical classes (like gross, fine etc.) The salvated beings have also many varieties with respect to their salvation in one, two, three, four, numerable, innumerable and infinite time instants. They have also varieties with respect to their shapes /sizes
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