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former impetus. Moreover, the self is free from attachment. For instance, a gourd coated with clay goes under water because of the heaviness. But when the coating of clay is washed off by water, the gourd becomes light and comes up to the surface of the water. Similarly, the self pressed down by the burden of karmas wanders indefinitely in mundane existence, being affected by it. But, on being freed from this association with karmas, it shoots up. Moreover, it breaks loose from confinement. Just as the castor-seed on breaking loose from confinement inside the fruit breaks out, so also the self cuts itself off from the karmas of conditions of existence and birth, which lead the self into the human and other states of existence, and darts up. Further the self is of the nature of going upwards. For instance, in the absence of wind blowing sideways, the flame of a candle tends upwards of its own nature. Similarly, the liberated self in the absence of karmas, which lead it wandering in different states of existence in different directions, darts upwards only as it is of the nature of going up.
Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 286-287.
Ācārya Umasvami’s Tattvārthasūtra
धर्मास्तिकायाभावात् ॥ As there is no medium of motion.
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Ācārya Pujyapada's Sarvārthasiddhi There is no movement in the non-universe above, as there is no medium of motion which aids movement. Otherwise there would be no distinction between the universe and the nonuniverse.
Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 287.
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