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so is the case with Kala-Anus.
22. The three Dravyas other than Jiva (soul), Pudgala (matter) and Kala (time), that is, Dharma, Adharma and Akash, are each of them only one and indivisible.
23. Besides Jiva (soul) and Pudgala (matter), the remaining four Dravyas, that is, Dharma, Adharma, Akash and Kala, do not possess movement; the Sages have said so.
24. Both the Dharma and the Adharma Dravya are Asankhyat Pradeshi (extending over countless points); each Jiva (soul) is also Asankhyat Pradeshi, Akash is Ananta Pradeshi (possessing infinite parts), and Pudgala, with reference to its Paramanu (particle or atom), is Eka Pradeshi (possessing one part alone), and with reference to its Skandhas (compounds) is Sankhyat Pradeshi (possessing parts which can be counted), Asankhyat Pradeshi (possessing countless parts) as well as Ananta Pardeshi (possessing infinite parts); each Kala-Anu (time-atom) is Eka Pradeshi (possessing one part only).
25. Although the six Darvyas (substances) are existing in Lokakash (space of the world), still they are in reality existing in their own Gunas (attributes).
26. The five Ajiva substances all perform their functions according to their nature; being affected by them the Jiva (soul) wanders about in the Samsara, suffering pains and pleasures of the four classes of life.
27. O, Soul! Know thou all these five Dravyas as the cause of Dukha (pain), because by furnishing thee with thy body, form, and the like, they make thee wander in the Samsara; hence thou shouldst follow the Moksha-Marga (way to salvation) so that thou mightst obtain Moksha.
28. From the Vyavahara point of view, I have given the description of Samyak Darshan (true belief). Now hear thou the description of Samyak Jnana (true knowledge) and Samyak Charitra (true conduct) in the same way, so that thou mightst obtain the Parameshthi (God-hood).
29. He who knows the substances as they actually are and
