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The Doer (Karta) and the deed (Karma)
Pudgala Paramāņu is one Dravya. Therefore, one cup of milk or a small amount of yogurt is a collection of many Dravya (many Pudgala Paramāņu).
Before going further, let us consider an example of a show performed by many boys in an inaugural ceremony of Olympic Games. Imagine a group of 1000 boys standing on the ground such that they look like a peacock to the audience at a distance. Next, let us imagine an entry of 100 boys on the ground. Let these 100 boys stand in such a way that they look like an elephant to the audience at a distance. Now these 1100 boys mingle in such a way that in a few seconds they appear like one big elephant. At this point, the viewers of the show clap. They have seen that a small elephant mingled with a peacock and in a few seconds all got transformed into a big elephant. Do the viewers really think that they are seeing an elephant? No, they are realizing very well that initially there were many boys and at the end of the show there were same number of boys. They are knowing that there has not been any change in any of these boys. They also know that neither there was any peacock nor any elephant in the real sense.
In case of the formation of yogurt by milk this example may be helpful. Just as there have been some changes in the arrangement of 1100 boys, here also there have been some changes in the arrangement of many Pudgala Paramāņu. Modern science confirms that such a conversion from the milk to curd (yogurt) is nothing but some changes in the arrangement of many chemical atoms present in the process. To strengthen this scientific aspect, it may be appropriate to add that the author of these paragraphs has written these lines on the basis of his own first hand knowledge. He has published a large number of research papers which are based on this basic notion that a chemical reaction is constituted by one or more changes in the arrangement of the related atoms.
The change based on the arrangement of Pudgala Paramāņu that we notice is very meaningful in various ways. Without its importance one would not spend one's time in performing this
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