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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE division like inhabited and unihabited universe
Shri Prabha chandra suri explaining in detail the Dharmadravya in his Prameys Kamal Martanda writes that -
"The motions of all souls and material substances require an external medium (Nimitta) because all of them are found to be in motion simultaneously, just as by observing the simultaneous motion of many fishes it is inferred that water of the same lake is the medium of motions"
Existence Proved by Reasoning The concept of Dharmastikaya is not entirely hypothetical or baseless This point is fully clarlfied by Jain philosphers
Jainism believes- "The space is infinite, the (inbabited) universe is finite, existing in a part of the space" The reason for the above belief is, that in the universe there must be some substance, the attribute of which, is to assist the motion and that substance is limited to the inhabited universe If it were not so, each and every atom of the universe would have scattered in the infinite, as a result of which, there would have been no integration (as systematic intergration is now observed). This is logical reasoning for the existence of Dharmadravya
Another reasoning is that, the soul and matter are two mobile substances. The substantial cause
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