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Pravacanasāra
specific qualities describe the constantly changing conditions or modes. Consciousness (cetanatva) is a specific (višeşa) attribute of the soul when viewed in reference to non-souls but a general (sāmānya) attribute when viewed in reference to other souls. In a hundred pitchers, the general quality is their jar-ness, and the specific quality is their individual size, shape or mark. Thousands of trees in a forest have tree-ness (vľkşatva) as the general (sāmānya) attribute but each tree has specific (visesa) attributes, distinguishing these as the neem tree, the oak tree or the palm tree. The knowledgeable man should distinguish his soul from all other substances by concentrating on the specific qualities of each substance. He knows the nature of his soul as eternal, not produced by any external entity, and equipped with the light of knowledge that knows the self as well as the other substances. I am not the substance of dharma, adharma, ākāśa, kāla or pudgala; not even the other soul (jīva). All these six substances inhabit the same space as the light of many lamps inhabits the same room; still, each is a different substance. My nature of consciousness (cetanatva) makes me different from all other substances. In the soul that understands this distinction between the self and the non-self, the seed of delusion (moha) does not sprout.
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