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very information is conveyed by calling these verities arūpin. 3.
The words rūpa, mūrtatva and mūrti are all mutually synonymous :
The properties colour, taste etc. that are capable of being grasped through sense-organs—they verily are called mūrti. The properties of pudgalas are capable of being grasped through senseorgans, hence pudgalas are alone mūrta or rupin. No other substance except pudgala is mūrta because none of them can be grasped through sense-organs. Hence possession of rūpa constitutes the dissimilarity that obtains between pudgala on the one hand and the four verities dharmāstikaya etc. on the other.
Although a number of subtle substances like atoms etc. and so also their properties are, on account of being supra-sensuous, incapable of being grasped through sense-organs, yet under some specific condition which is of the form of some specific transformation they do develop the capacity to be grasped through sense-organs. That is why even if suprasensuous they are doubtless rūpin or mūrta. As for the four substances dharmāstikāya etc. that are called arūpin they are utterly devoid of the capacity to be grasped through sense-organs. This is what distinguishes the suprasensuous pudgala from the suprasensuous substances like dharmāstikāya etc. 4.
Of the above-mentioned five substances those upto ākāśathat is, the three substances dharmāstikāya, adharmāstikāya, and ākāśāstikāya—are of the form of one instance each. In their case there are not to be found two or more instances.
Similarly, these very three substances are all devoid of kriyā. Thus being of the form of one instance and being devoid of kriyā these two features constitute the similarity that obtains between the three substances in question; they also constitute the dissimilarity that obtains between these three substances on the one hand and pudgalāstikāya as well as jīvāsţikāya on the other. In the case of the substances pudgala and jīva numerous instances are to be found and they are also possessed of kriyā. For unlike
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