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Samayasara
Chapter - 10
(Rāgo doso moho te jīvassa du aṇaṇṇapariṇāmā) The psychic states-attachment, aversion, and delusion-are the soul's own attributes [before enlightenment] (edeņa kāraṇeṇa du rāgādī saddādisu ṇatthi) and that is why the sound etc. [which are the characteristics of the physical existence] do not possess attachment and the like.
(Annadaviyena aṇṇadaviyassa guṇuppādo no kīrade) A substance can never produce qualities/attributes of another substance, [according to the metaphysical law]; (tamhā du savvadavvā sahāveṇa uppajjamte) that is why each substance produces its own qualities/attributes which are possessed by that substance only.
Annotations :
In these verses, the author initiates the discussion on some fundamental metaphysical laws relating to the qualities modes/states and their substratum the substance. This discussion is further continued in the succeeding verse up to 10.75.
According to the law of anekanta, a substance is a continuum through the infinite variations of its modes at every moment of its existence. The eternal continuity of the substance is as much a reality as the variations. Thus, there is unity as well as multiplicity in perfect harmony. Again, the admission of existence of a substance involves the existence of qualities and modes-jointly called attributes-possessed by it. For "to say that something exists inevitably raises the question what this something is. And that question must be answered by asserting something of it other than its existence." "It remains true that something exists, but of that something, something besides its existence must be true. Now that which is true of something is a quality of that something. And therefore whatever is existent must have some quality besides existence which is itself a quality."
"If we deny the possession of quality, the existent/substance is an absolute blank and to say that only this exists is equivalent to saying that nothing exists." And the admission of quality involves the admission of a relation between the quality and the substance 1. The Nature of Existence by Mc Taggart, vol. 1. pp. 60-61 2. Ibid.
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