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Reals in the Jaina Metaphysics अनुद्भूतरूपस्पर्शोप्रत्यक्षश्चाक्षुषोरश्मिरिति। ३-१-३५
(cara TA1977–17077) The visual Tejas is characterised by insensibility and
inexplicit visibility and imperceptible heat. The Visual Tejas which is perfectly invisible is the fourth mode of Tejas described above and is thus similar to a considerable extent to the intermediary Ether, in the case of visual perception in which the phenomena of radiance and electricity” are not explicit
Tejas thus resembles Ether. Both of them have for their explicit characteristics "the phenomena of radiance and electricity". In the matter of visual perception too, they are similar. Ether in such a case is not explicitly radiant and the visual Tejas is '3173HEEFT' and 3FICULT:. There is a third point also in respect of which Ether resembles Tejas. Ether is an extremely subtle substance and can pass through hard and apparently impenetrable bodies. “That Ether penetrates transparent bodies is shown by the passage of light through them”. The same thing is said of the visual Tejas. Vātsāyana points outन च काचोऽभूपटलंवा नयनरश्मि विष्टिभ्नात्ति। ३।११४५
(Furga 144747-HT627) Glass and other such transparent substances cannot obstruct the visual rays.
It is thus that with regard to functions there is considerable similarity between Tejas and Ether. But here the parallel ends. For, if from the phenomena of their functionîng, we turn our attention to the structures of Ether and Tejas, we find they are widely different. Tejas is atomic. Ether, on the contrary, as we have seen in our consideration of Space, is not atomistic”, “not made up of separate particles (atoms) but continuous” in the words of Haeckel). In this respect, Ether is essentially different from Tejas and similar to Ākāśa to some extent.
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