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DENSITY OF MATHER
We had seen that the matter in the unnerse 1 pinte dens. in some places then in others. Thus in the nucleus of an atom the matter is so deme that ʼn paise would weigh 600 mullion tons if its toms were as tightly packed as the particles in the nucleus.
A paramiun aswch weidis the ultimate inns ible unit of matter It has no extension and therefore is equivalent to a point Logically, therefore, a paremănu at rest will occupy one spice print. How much space will be occupied by shandha's which are composed of two three, four, million billion, or asamkhyata (innumerable) paranimus? The maximum number of space points occupied by a standha is equal to the number of its paramūnus A skandha with infinite paramanus will occupy asan khyalu points When more tightly packed however, a composition would extend to space points less than the number of paramānus. And in the extreme case a composition with infinite paramāņus may occupy only a single space point
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We have said that not a single paramāņu can be created or destroyed re whatever be the total number of paramānus in the universe is a constant. what is this number? It is inexpressible in numerical figures It is infinite times the total number of Jeevas which is itself infinite The number of skandhas (composition) is also infinite
DUALITY OF PARAMANU
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