Jainism Not an Atheisam

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Herbert Warren

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one class, and so we get a classification of real things, a classification of substances, "the six dravyas."
The Jain philosophy recognises six kinds of substances, their names are as follows:
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1. Dharmastikaya. 2. Adharmastikaya. 3. Akashastikaya. 4. Pudgalastikaya. 5. Jivastikaya. 6. Kala.
DHARMASTIKAYA is that substance which is the ac-companying cause of the motion of moving things and beings. The accompanying cause is necessary for the motion, without the accompanying cause there could not be any motion. Vibration would be explained by this substance.
ADHARMASTIKAYA is the accompanying cause of the stationary states of things and beings that are not moving or that are resting in the sense of not moving.
AKASHASTIKAYA is that substance which acts as a receptacle of all other substances; and this is not a kind of thing that needs to be contained. It may be called space.
PUDGALASTIKAYA is that substance the nature of which is such that its qualities, colour, etc., increase and decrease. Here the real substance is the atom, but not in the Theosophical sense : the real substance is the ultimate, indivisible atom. Matter in all forms is made up of atoms, but the atom is not made up of other units, is not a mixture of other