Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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or it may even expand to fill up the whole of the worldly universe (called "Locakash” in Jain Philosophy). Therefore it is said to have body” or “Kaya”. Similarly we find that Pudgala itself can combine and form big bodies even such as the big earth, so it is also called to have a body or Kaya.
In the same way except the "time-units the "Kalanu” all other of these pimary or elementary fundamental "Dravyas" or substances known as (i) “Akasha”-the space (ii) the Dharmadravya (the Ether) and (iii) the Adharmadravya (the counter Ether) have also “Kaya” or body. I think this counter eather is nothing but the counter ether" property of attraction of all planatory bodies and things and their influence on each other, popularly known as “the force of Gravitation”.
"Akasha” is the unlimited or endless expanse of space of which our own constellation forms only a limited part. Our own globe, on which we live, is only one of the many planets forming this great constellation, in the same way as the electrons are inside an atom. This atom gives a true representation of our own constellation and this constellation
