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DISCOURSE 92
DOUBTS AS WELL AS CLARIFICATIONS ESSENTIAL
'Uha' (ordinary contemplation) and 'Apoha' (extraordinary contemplation) are essential to dispel all doubts. Uha and Apoha also are two qualities of the intelligence. Uha enables you to acquire ordinary knowledge and Apoha enables you to acquire special and pure knowledge. That means, Uha is the name given to the ordinary contemplation and Apoha is the name given to extraordinary contemplation.
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The contemplation we have made now regarding non-violence is Uha or ordinary contemplation. Apoha implies carrying out a deep and incisive contemplation. Production, destruction and substance (dravya) are the media through which contemplation is carried out on Dravya (the original substance), Guna (the attribute) and Paryaya (the modification) the bondage of Karma, the liberation from karma etc.
For instance, we may begin a contemplation thus. If some violence has been committed to a jiva.... what will happen? The people with an ordinary intelligence would say, "The jiva... dies". That is all they say. But those who possess special intelligence will say, "One modified form of that jiva has been destroyed but its soul which is imperishable will be born in some other form". The soul is the dravya or the original substance and the body is the paryaya or the modified form. The soul is eternal and everlasting but the modifications of the soul are perishable and transitory. The atma has two attributes. One is its natural quality and the other is the acquired quality. The natural quality of the soul never perishes but the acquired quality of the soul perishes when karmas are destroyed.
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When we think of only the modified forms of the soul, attachments and hatred arise in us. We can develop the attitude of neutrality only when we think of the Dravya (the original substance). The dravya is the pure soul. The pure soul can never take birth and cannot also die. In the same manner the substances called pudgals are permanent as dravyas but perishable as modified forms.
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