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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokşa
of the universe by their properties and relations. The nine Dravyas are -(1) earth (geat), (2) water (BTC),
3) fire (aste), (4) air (ay), (5) space (81741T), (6) time (795), (7) direction (fam), (8) the self (27177) and (9) mind (H97). All these substance are not material but each of them has quite a distinct characteristic which is not possessed by any other substance. The Dravyas exist in the form of their infinitesimal parts, known as the anus or atoms. Both these systems believe that the ultimate reality consists of the minute particles or atoms. The concrete things of the world are infinitely divisible. On a thoroughgoing analysis of the things of the world, we arrive at the same existence which becomes final and which remains further indivisible. Thus, according to these schools, these final indivisible and indestructible things to which we can reduce the gross and concrete things of the world are the atoms. They form the points of termination. They are uncaused things, and act as the constituent causes of all the material things of the universe, having different magnitudes. They are simple and partless, and are perceptible to our sense organs. They are extremely subtle and infinitesimal in size and hence, their presence in ākāsa does not interfere with its all-pervading nature. They have to be understood by inference and imagination as they cannot be the objects of our perception or direct knowledge. They are the fundamental metaphysical points with their special peculiarities. They do not possess magnitudes, still they produce things by forming aggregates in the form of binary and triad compounds.
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