Studies in Haribhadrasuri

Author(s): N M Kansara, G C Tripathi
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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Studies in Haribhadrasūri
Now, in the Șad-darśana-samuccaya Haribhadra has declared that Jīva is different and somehow not different from the attributes such as knowledge, etc. has transformations, and is the doer of auspicious and inauspicious action, the enjoyer of the fruits of actions and is characterized by consciousness. That which has a nature opposed to this has been called A-jīva. Virtue is the pudgals of good karma.
Regarding communication of information, the Dhavalā commentary says that an ultimate particle (paramāņu) can travel; at an instant (samaya) with minimal velocity of transgression of a point (pradeśa) and with a maximal velocity of transgression of points (pradeśas) contained in an interval of fourteen rājus. Maxima and minima are described in the Jaina canonical texts as thousands of places whenever comparability (alpa-bahutva) relevant to pud and gala is sought like the Yin and the Yang of the relevant topics in the Chinese philosophy. The Ajaghanyānutkrsta is the middle path traversed by the Buddhas and the Chinese, whereas such terms have mathematical significance in the Jaina philosophy.
Virasena explains that an instant is the time of non-passing away of one atom from another one. It is further elaborated as passing away of the ether to the extent of fourteen rope lengths.5
This is the behavioural time (vyavahāra-kāla) of the Jaina Āgama. The deterministic time (niścaya-kāla) is the Kāla-dravya. Einstein worked with the maximal possible velocity, which he postulated as remaining constant in all inertial frames of reference, and this created the special theory of relativity, which solved a dilemma of physicists of the beginning of the twentieth century. Still, then remained the problems of the elementary particle theory and the question was whether the minimal velocity postulate of the Jaina School could contribute to it at the nuclear dimensions. These became important at (10)-33 cms., and the time intervals become important from (10)-23 secs., backwards. Perhaps the gravitational force becomes