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modified form, i.e., without renouncing its previous character of Sentience, or (b) it is connected with the successive factors', in its modified form, i.e.. in a form in which the previous character has been abandoned. If this latter view be accepted, then there is disappearance of the eternality (of the Soul); as under this view, there would be no single entity existing throughout the series of successive factors. If the former view be accepted -that it is connected in its unmodified form, then there is no difference, i.e., change, as between the preceding and succeeding states ; so that the senti. ence would not be liable to modification, i.o., it has to be regarded as unmodifiable; as modification is of the nature of change, becoming something else. And yet it is held to be modifiable. The argument may be for. mulated as follows:--When a thing cannot be differentiated between its preceding and succeeding states, it cannot be regarded as modifiablo; e.g. the Alcasha; Sentience is not differentiated at all in any state; so that the wider character being absent (the narrower one must be denied).-(312)
In the following texts, it is urged from the standpoint of the Jaina that the reason just put forward is unproven', 'not acimitted
TEXTS (313-315),
* WHEN Sentience IS SPOKEN OF AS 'ONE, IT IS WITH REFERENCE TO
SPACE, TIME AND NATURE; WHEN IT IS SPOKEN OF AS DIPFERENT', IT IS WITH REFERENCE TO NUMBER, CHARACTERISTIO, NAME AND FUNCTION.-WHEN WE SPEAK OF THE 'JAR (SINGULAR) AND ITS COLOUR AND THE REST' (PLURAL), THERE IS DIEFERENCR OF NUMBER' AND 'NAME'; TEERE IS ALSO DIFFERENCE OT NATURE, INASMUCH AS 'INCLUSIVENESS' (COMPREHENSIVENESS) IS THE NATURE OF THE substance Jar, WALE 'EXCLUSIVENESS' (DISTRIBUTIVENESS) IS THE NATURE OF THE Successive Factors IN THE TORM or Colour and the rest; AND THERE IS DIFFERENCE ALSO OF
TUNCTION; INASMUCH AS THE PURPOSES SERVED BY THE TWO ARE DIFFERENT.SIMILARLY BETWEEN THE SUBSTANCE' AND THE
SUCCESSIVE FACTORS:-Tuus Substance IS NOT ABSOLUTELY undifferentiated, AS IT DOES BECOME DIFFERENTIATED IN THE VORM OF THE Successive Factors."-(313-315)
COMMENTARY
It the Substance were absolutely different from the successivc factors, then no differentiation in it would be possible ; because, on the ground of their non-difference regarding place, time and nature, the two are held to be one and the same; as a matter of fact, however, the two are different as regards number and other factors; for instance, the difference regarding
