Jaina World of Non Living

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

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The Jaina world of Non-living
the space is also infinite locationally in term of innumerable spacepoints accommodating infinite living and non-living entities. But it is also a single continuous reality substantively.
All these three realities are not many like the living ones and mattergies. Similarly, these later ones are not single units like the three being described. If these two are accepted as single entities, there will be contradiction with the observed difference between an action and actor. There also might be the possibility of loss of worldly and liberated state. The singleness or mani-ness of the reality of time will be described in aphorism 5.39. Supplementary Notes 1. The commentary deals with the following points : (a) The meaning of the term 'Eka' ( one) as numerically one is selected out of many meaning of the word. (b) The support of plurality in the word 'Dravya' (reality') on the basis of three separate realities involved. (c) It also supports the use of the term 'Eka-Dravyāņi' on the ground that the unitariness or continuousness has been described with respect to substantivity only. It is not spatially, temporally or modally as the realities may have maniness in these respects. 2. The commentary reflects grammatical maturity of the author. 3. The single and indivisible wholeness can be proved by the following inference :
"The realities of medium of rest or motion are each a single whole because they are non-material despite their large extension (pervasivity) like the space." 4. The Vaiseșikas have an inference proving maniness of these realities :
"The realities of medium of rest and motion are many because they constitute of many space-points like the earth etc."
This inference is not correct as it has a transgressional characte with space which is also one with many spacepoints. 5. This aphorism serves two purposes : (a) It indicates similarity of one wholeness among the three realities.
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