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ન્યાયકુસુમાંજલિ.
( aaya Lokakasa, is eternal, is void of activity and has no colour. It is the accompanying cause of motion of the moving substances- animate and inanimate. It does not make them move; it only assists them in their movement when they begin to move. Thus, it is clear that Dharma is that which, not moving in itself and not imparting motion to any substance assists Jiva and Pudgala in motion. It is one only like Adharma and Akas'a. It has innumerable Prades'as as is the case with Adharma and Jiva. It must not be confounded with Punya wnich is also the meaning of Dharma. It has nothing to do with this other meaning.
Adharma is a medium of rest. Like Dharma, it pervades Lokakas'a, is eternal, is void of activity and has no colour. It is indifferent or passive (Udasina) and not active or solicitous (Preraka ) cause of stationariness. One should not make an error of considering Adharma as here meaning Papa. It is perhaps to avoid such a confusion that generally Dharma and Adharma are spoken of as Dharmastikaya and Adharmastikaya. As Dharma and Adharma do not exist beyond Lokakas'a, no soul nor any particle of matter can get beyond this world for want of the media of motion and rest. This also explains why the liberated souls, though they have a tendency of going upwards have to stay at the top of Lokakas'a.
In Jaina literature the following illustrations are given for Dharma and Adharma, For Dharma is given an illustration of a fish moving in water,
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