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Ajivatattva : A Study
(A SURVEY OF NON-LIVING SUBSTANCE) Jivatuttva is opposite of ajīvatartva.1 Celenā is the characteristic of jīva and it has the attributes of upayoga i. e., jñāna and darśana. The substance which is in a body and which sees, knows and experiences pleasure and pain is called jīva.? The body in which there is no cognising substance experiencing pleasure and pain is the ajīva (non-living substance.)3
Ajīva is of two kinds : (1) rūpi ajiva (with form) and (2) arūpi ajiva (formless).4 Pudgala has form. The other four substances (dravya) Dharma, Adharma, Akāśa, and Kāla are arūpi (formless).
In the agama literature the substances having form have been called "murta" while those substances which have no form are called "amūrta."
DHARMASTIKĀYA Of the six dravyas, jīva and pudgala bave the capacity of movement. They have the capacity to move from one place other, but it does not mean that they are constantly moving every instant. It only means that they have motion as a capacity and possibility and are not absolutely stationary (sthitiśīla). The other four dravyas are having no motion. In Jainism, jīva and pudgala have been considered to be both gat iśīla (having movement) and sthitiśīla (being stationary)--and for this kind of movement they have
1. Sthānānga, 2, 1, 57. 2. Pañchāstikāya, 2, 122, 3. Pañcāstikāya 2, 124-125. 4. (a) Uttarādhyayana sūtra, 36.
(b) Samavāyānga, 149,
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