Jainism Not an Atheism

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PRADESHAS.
(Indivisible, inseprable parts). The indivisible parts of a substance are called "pradeshas;" they are thought only in imagination. In any particular soul there are innumerable pradeshas ; and any particular dravaya has many pradeshas (the atom has no pradeshas). In every pradeshas there are infinite capa cities of performing common action, of performing a common action in innumerable ways, of acting together in innumerable ways. “Capacity” refers to the future ; capacities are future modifications.
GUNA-PARYAYA. Guna means the quality. Paryaya means the modıfication.
For instance, matter has colour, colour is the quality or guna ; any particular matter has a particular colour, the particular colour (red, for instance) is the modification or paryaya of the quality.
The particular mark which would stay all the time with the substance is quality; the temporary state is the modification.
The modifications suceed each other, the quality is permanent. In the changing states of knowledge, for instance, there is the permanent capacity to know.
There is only a distinction between guna and parayaya and not a real difference. Distinction means that it is separable only in thought ; difference means a real fact of difference.
Having qualities and modifications is the characteristic of substance. Red is a modification, not a quality. A chair is a modification of matter; a horse is a modification of "jiva" (living being).