Jaina World of Non Living

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

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The Jaina world of Non-living
undifferentiate and unmanifest. How the manifest world could originatefrom unmanifast abstract entity ? However, G. R. Jaina equates it with the sixth extra - fine matter in the form of fine fundamental particles of today. His equation requires deeper considerations as it goes above 'Pūjypāda' view.
The next aphorism answers the enquiry whether other realities like medium of rest etc. have also many varieties like the mattergic reality. A-Ākāsāt Eka-Dravyāņi
5.6 The realities upto space in aphorism 5.1 ( i. e. medium of rest, motion and space) are single and continuous entities. They are indivisible wholes, so to say. 5.6. 1. The prefix tā' in the aphorism has been used in the sense of inclusion rather than limitation. This means that space is also a single reality. Had the prefix been used to mean the limit, space would have been excluded. Thus, the aphorism 5.6 includes the reality of medium of motion, rest and space as per the order given in aphorism 5.1 2-3. The word 'eka' (single) has many meanings like single, helpless, solitary etc. However, it denotes the number here. It qualifies the word 'dravya' (reality) in the aphorism. This does not lead to the use of singular number for the realities because of common relationship as they are many (i. e. three in terms of medium of motion, rest and space). The numerical one cannot explain the meanings of many entities. 4. Q. There is already the topic of realities. The word 'Dravya' in the aphorism, therefore, violates the principle of brevity. Hence, the aphorism should end with 'ekaikam' (one each) rather than 'ek-dravyāņi'. A. This is not correct. The word 'Dravya' is included in the aphorism to specify their undoubted single wholeness with respect to their substantivity only rather than with any other respect like locational, modal or timal etc. This means that despite their innumerableness with respect to mode ( causing motion, rest and transformations in many living and mattergic realities ), location ( in terms of different time units ), the realities of motion and rest are single ones only substantively. Similarly,
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