Book Title: Treatise on Jainism
Author(s): Jayantibhai S Sanghvi
Publisher: S J Sanghvi

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________________ A Treatise on Jainism into existence (Utpada) and the old one decays i.e. goes out of existence (Vyaya). The essential attributes of the substance always persist through all these modifications. It must be clearly understood and constantly remembered that substance is one; the birth and decay in its modifications, and the continuance of the substance (Dhrauvya) itself are only three aspects of viewing one and the same thing. Also Substance (Dravya), Attribute (Guna), and Modification (Paryaya) are three mutually interpervasive aspects of the one trinity-unity; Attribute is nothing different from Substance and Modification.. So for all the three. When we talk or think of one, we necessarily talk or think of the remaining two. The Soul with Omniscience sees the whole trinity-unity in its entirety at one and the same time. In the Universe, the Jiva Dravya or Soul is found mixed with non-living matter. Death is a most universal and eternal phenomenon. The living body is living; when death intervenes, the body becomes lifeless, or dies. Life has left the body. This, Life is the Soul; the body represents the grossest and most. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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