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Jinbhadragani Kșamāśramaņa says that one cannot know the single letter “Ā” without knowing the entire world of objects. ( Višeşāvaśyaka Bhāsya gāthā, 484).6
Maladhāri Hemcandra has supported this as follows: A person knowing a single object in respect of all its own and alien modes is capable of knowing all objects is the cosmic and transcosmic universe, in all their own and alien modes. This is so because there is universal concomitance between the knowledge of one object and the knowledge of all objects. Conversaly one who knows all objects in all their modes knows one object in all its modes, because there is concomitance between the knowledge of all and the knowledge of one (Ibid, gāthā 484 vrtti).'
3.75 savvato pamattassa bhayam, savvato appamattassa natthi bhayam. The non-vigilant has fear from all sides; the wakeful has no fear from any side. Bhāsyam Sutra 75
By means of the knowledge of the nature of the passions, one is convinced of the truth that a non-vigilant person is subject to fear from all sides. “All sides” means in respect of substance, space, time and mode. In respect of substance, the fear pervades all the soul-points; in respect of space, from all six directions; 'in respect of time' means; each moment', ‘in respect of modes' means ‘in all states of existence'.
The person who is overwhelmed by attachment or aversion, or by anger, pride, deceit and greed is non-vigilant. The person under the sway of attachment incurs a fear lest he should have bereavement from his dear ones. The person under the sway of aversion has the fear of meeting an undesirable situation. In a similar way, fear pervades the passions of anger and the like. There is no fear for the person who is evenly disposed towards the desirable and the undesirable objects. The implication is that wherever there is the activity of passions, there must be fear. And wherever there is no passion, their reigns fearlessness.
3. 76 je egam nāme, se bahum nāme, je bahum nāme, se egam nāme. One who tranquallizes any one passion traquillizes all; one who tranquillizes all passions tranquillizes any one of them.
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