Tirthankar Mahavir and His Sarvodaya Tirth

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla, K C Lalwani
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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TIRTHANKARA MAHAVIRA AND HIS SARVODAYA TIRTHA
as category.2
That which exists in all parts and categories of an object is its quality; the transformation of the quality is its category.
Six Objects
This universe is nothing but a conglomeration of six objects3 which are soul (Java), matter (pudgala), motion (dharma), rest (adharma), space (ākāśa) and time (kāla). Leaving aside the soul, other five objects are non-souls
Thus this whole universe consists of souls and non-souls Souls are infinite in number; non-souls infinite-times more Motion, rest and space are each singular " Time is ennumerable.5
The soul has the capacity for knowledge and faith." Anything that has touch, taste, smell and colour is matter.7 All that is the visible universe coming within the purview of the organs of sense IS some form of matter, hence matter. Anything which helps the self-moving soul and matter to move IS motion. Anything which helps the self-moving and selfresting soul to stop is rest The space is instrumental in enveloping all objects, and time is instrumental in changing all objects &
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The topics of motion and rest are elaborated only in the Jaina philosophy, and in no other philosophy. In popular terms dharma and adharma are used to signify philosophy, way (path), doctrine, usage, virtue and vice, etc, but these meanings are not relevant in the Jaina context. These two are independent objects which, like oil in the seed, pervades the whole universe In the Jaina philosophy, compared to soul and matter, other four objects, viz,
2 gunaparyayavad dravyam, Tattvartha Sutra, 5/38
3 Dvadaśanuprekṣā, Gāthā, 39.
4 a ākāśadekadravyanı, Tattvartha Sutra, 516.
5 te kalānu asamkhadavvāni, Dravya Samgraha, Gathā, 22
6 upayoga lakṣaṇam/sa dvividho'stacaturbheda, Tattvartha Sutra, 2/8-9
7 sparsarasagandhavarna vantah pudglah, Tattvartha Sutra, 5/23.
8 Dravya Samgraha, Gāthā, 17-21; Pravacanasāra, Gāthā, 133-34