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ATOM IN JAIN
PHILOSOPHY 65
'immunity from being destroyed as substance Conservation is the quality which enables the matter to continue and maintain its material existence inspite of its intimate association and interaction with other substances
Thus, although certain types of material bodies are attracted, transformed and assimilated by the conscvous substance, at no time do they lose their material identity but remain eternally material On the other hand its most intimate interaction with conscious substance can never transform the latter into matter42
In the infinite past the matter evisted as matter in the present it exists as matter and for the infinite future it will continue to exist as matter Matter persists through modes but is always eternally niatter. It can never absolutely be destroyed nor he absolutely transmutedre become non-natler 43
The total quantity of matter in the universe is always constant, whatever was the quantity in the infinite past will always remain the same in the infinite future Not a single paramānu (ultimate particle) has been totally destroyed in the past nor will it be destroyed in future Not a single parūmanii was newly created in the past nor will be created in future 44 - 11) a MATTER IS PHYSICAL NOT PSYCHICAL ORDER OF EXISTENCE
What is devoid of consciousness is ajeeva Matter is
42 Jio na bhavantajecials 43 Tadbhüzūraujajam nitiam-Tatlarürtha Sürra 530
44 Alasthura gralanādanrūnādhihallamārırıläsare anădinidh. antitbljün na siaram um abhichamnti-ihid, Sıddlisena s Commentar 5 3
