Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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to the two aspects, namely viksepa and avaraņa ascribed to Avidya by the later writers on Advaita. Time (kālasakti) is looked upon as the efficient cause (nimitta-kārana) or the causal agent (prayojaka-karty) of the phenomenal world in its manifold phases of creation, preservation and dissolution.53 As Time, with the help of its two aspects, makes possible the temporal sequence in phenomenal world, we superimpose on the Time itself the temporal sequence. Succession or simultaneity are the attributes of actions or objects and not of Time but we superimpose them on Time because it is Time that presents actions or objects in succession or simultaneity:54 Again, though Time is unitary we wrongly describe it as manifold after having identified it with the actions and movement which it controls,55 Similarly, our description of Time as long or brief is not true. Though it is constant and changeless, it appears to be of greater or shorter duration according as the series of actions brought about by it is long drawn out or cut short.56 Moreover, Time, in reality, is not threefold-past, present and future. When an action ceases, Time is described as past, when it is about to happen, it is said to be future; and when it continues to flow on as a current, it is called present. Thus the distinctions into past. future and present naturally pertain to actions, while they are superimposed on Time.57 The two aspects pratibandha and abhyanujña are eternal.58 Hence they co-exist. Co-existence of these two mutually opposite aspects would give rise to the contingency of conflict between the two. The grammarians solve the difficulty by stating that there is a chronological co-existence yet there is a logical sequence between the two and cite a case of three gunas of Sāmkhya Praksti in their support.59
53 उत्पत्तौ च स्थिती चापि विनाशे चापि तद्वताम् । निमित्तं कालमेवाहुर्विभक्तनात्मना स्थितम् ॥
-Väkyapadiya, III. 9.3. 54 TA 7 Parafga: FA: FIC ART 7 at 7 H *4: 1-Helārāja's comm.,
p. 352.
vå irruf... 7 HARTUTI-Ibid., p. 353. 55 ... ca sa fanfaat aparaturfafcat... 1-Ibid., p. 344. 56 दूरान्तिकव्यवस्थानमध्वाधिकरणं यथा। चिरक्षिप्रव्यवस्थानं कालाधिकरणं तथा ॥
-Vâkyapadīya, III. 9.47. 57 क्रियान्युपरमे भूतः, सम्भावितायां क्रियायां भविष्यन् , क्षणप्रवाहरूपेण वर्तमानरूपायां तस्यां मुख्य एवायम् ।
-Helārāja's comm., p. 350. 58 ferrarRigat aferi TRT T I -Vakyapadiya, III. 9.30 59 Vālyapadīya, III. 9.52 and Helārāja's comm., p. 361.