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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
Now add to mg the following infinities:
1. The infinitely infinite shades or degrees of qualities of the Dharma dravya, and
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2. The infinitely infinite shades or degrees of qualities of the Adharma dravya.
Let us say the total is
had to the shaläkä traya nishthapana process.
(XR)
(i) (xR)
(ii) (*R1
XR Once more resort is to be
Result.
Result.
; then Result.; then again Result., .
(x) ) RI
)
XR1
2
(iii) (*lig ) ( *R2 )
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XR times = x * Ri
Result.
Result.
; then Result.; then again Result.,.
times
XR2
Result.
Result.
; then Result.; then again Result.,. . .
times =x
• XR2
[NOTE: * R 3 actually includes every possible phase of enumeration with reference to the infinity of existing substances and their compounds and the infinity of forms of the existing substances and of their combinations and states, but Omniscience is still a larger infinity, being actually beyond the calculating capacity of finite Reason. Hence, O (Omniscience) is greater than *R Hence also the
XR3
.
highest type of infinity is O.]
If these conclusions appear to be absurd or funny to mathematicians, it will be because in mathematics the notion of infinity is employed merely for the purposes of calculation. In Jainism the need for a comparative measure of different infinities is also kept in view. But for the purposes of pure calculation infinity is only regarded as infinity also in Jainism, irrespective of its type and grade.
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