Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
qualities are inherent in one substance; but the characteristic of (levelopments is that they inhere in either (piz., substances or qualities). The characteristic of development is singleness, separate. ness, number, form, conjunction and disjunction."
It will be interesting at this stage to compare the six substances of the Jaina Siddhanta with the nine realities of the Vaisheshikas. As pointed out on pp. 81 and 82 ante, tliese nine realities comprise
(i) the ultimate units of odour, (ii) do. do. of flavour, (iii) do do. of luminosity, (iv) do. do. of temperature, (v) akasha, i.e., a kind of ether, (vi) kâla, (vii) dik, (viii) manas, and
(ix) souls. These are the nine realities in the system of Kanada; but only a glance is needed to show that the onumeration is purely arbitrary and devoid of scientific or philosophical merit. The first four classes, the ultimate units of odour, flavour, luminosity and temperature, do not represent four different things or substances, but only the four common attributes of one and the same substance, namely, matter. For there is no warrant for holding that temperature can be altogether eliminated from flavour, flavour from odour, odour from colour and so forth. The fact is that matter is endowed with the properties of touch, taste, smell and colour, though each particular sense-organ responds to only one of these properties. For instance, we cannot perceive colour with the nose, odour with the eye and