Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 034448
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers
Publication Year: 2018
Total Pages: 500
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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अध्याय-५
That which is uncountable is innumerable (asamkhyāta). Innumerable is of three kinds, the minimum, the maximum, and that which is neither the minimum nor the maximum (i.e., midway between the two). Here the third variety of innumerable is implied. A space-point (pradeśa) is said to be the space occupied by an indivisible elementary particle (paramāņu). The medium of motion (dharma), the medium of rest (adharma) and each individual soul (jīva) have the same innumerable (asamkhyāta) space-points (pradeśa). The media of motion and of rest are ‘niskriya' - without activity - and co-extensive with the universe (loka). Though the soul has the same number of space-points as these two, still it is capable of contraction and expansion. So it occupies either a small body or a big one as determined by the karmas. But, when, at the time of kevali-samudghātal, the soul expands, filling up the entire universe, the central eight space-points of the soul remain at the centre of the citrā prthivi2 below Mount Meru and the remaining space-points spread filling up the entire universe in all directions. The extent of space-points (pradeśa) of the substance of space (ākāśadravya) is mentioned next.
आकाशस्यानन्ताः ॥९॥
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The substance of space (ākāśadravya) has infinite (ananta) space-points (pradeśa).
1 - See explanation to sūtra 3-35, p. 140. Kevali-samudghāta - the Omniscient emanates from his body the spatial units of his soul, without wholly discarding the body, for the purpose of levelling down the duration of the other three non-destructive karmas to that of the age (ayuh) karma. 2 - See explanation to sūtra 4-12, p. 155.
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