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Ν Α
Ρ Η Σ OSOPHY
inseparable,39 their permanence is through incessant modification A mode has a beginning and an end The end of the old mode would necessarily be the commencement of a new one and the change is as much real as the permanence 40
Just as a quality is neither absolutely different from nor absolutely identical to the substance in the same way modes are not absolutely different from qualities In fact they are nought but succession within the identity of a quality and thus attribute of succession within an identity is known as mutation Take for instance, a golden bangle and a golden ring In both, the specific qualities of the element gold inheres uniformly but the mutability of the gold to be transformed into different shapes and sizes makes it possible to become sometime a bangle and sometinie a ring This transformation of shapes is mutability and the shape for the time being is a mode The bangle-mode can be destroved to create the ringmode but the goldhood is permanent or identical in both Thus matter is a substance which is never destroyed i e never becomes a non-matenal identity
b MATTER IS INDESTRUCTIBLE AND AVASTHITA (NON-TRANSMUTABLE)
Permanence and conservation are universal qualilies of all substances Pernianence is defined as
39. Anantastikāla-nışanād apannutah ve dhurmâh sahabhāva nah krama bhūynascha parjājah-Sjādi ādanianjan, Commentary of Sloka-22
40 Vipāda-i jaja-dhrauva-juhiam sai - Tamartha Sülra, 5-29
31 Apartjuhla nabhāvenor pāda vjala-dhrona-samuktam Gunarachcha saparjasant a rladdnjamili bruyanine Pravachanasara, 2-3
