one Cause of all causes.-The meaning of
Cause. The Whole the Cause of each Part.
-The Necessity as Mâyâ.—The etymology of
Mâyâ.-Correspondence between the evolu-
tion of a language and a whole world-system.
-Connection between Mâyâ-Shakti and Nega-
tion.-Shakti as might, power, energy, &c.—
Its three attributes, viz., Âvaraṇa-Vikṣhepa-
Sâmya; attraction, repulsion, balanced alter-
nation; Srishți-Sthiti-Samhâra, creation-pre-
servation-destruction.-Vidyâ, Avidyâ, Mahâ-
vidyâ, Science, Prescience, Wisdom.-The
worship of Shakti.-Confusion as regards
Shakti and Prakriti in current Samskrit works.
-Parâ, Aparâ, and Daivi Prakritis 138-169
Cause and Condition.-Distinction between
them. Various kinds of causes.-Their com-
characteristic.-Shakti as cause and
Negation as condition.-The three attributes
or aspects of Negation, viz., Space-Time-
Motion. Their genesis and correspondence
with the primal trinity.-The variability of
such correspondence.
(a) Space.-Space as co-existence. - The
triple aspects of Space, viz., (1) Side-beside-
between, (2) inner-outer-through, (3) point-
radii-sphere, &c.-Pseudo-infinite dimensions
of space.-Worlds within worlds.-Symbology.
(b) Time.-Time as succession.—Its tripli-
cities, viz., (1) beginning-end-middle, (2) Past-
future-present, (3) Moment-period-cycle.-Per-
sonal immortality.-Variations of correspond-
(c) Motion.-Motion as the interweaving of
co-existence and succession. Its triplets,
viz., (1) Mergence-emergence-recurrence, (2)
approach-recess-revolution, (3) linear-rota-
tory-spiral, &c.-Various aspects of motion.-
Various significant ways of describing motion.
- Symbology. — The unresolvable mutual
immanence and synchronousness of all trini-
ties and triplets. The co-inherence of all
such trinities, that is to say, of the whole of
Samsâra, in each Jîva-atom, each composite
of Self and Not-Self.-The solution of the
riddle that all is everywhere and always 170-199
XIII. JIVA-ATOMS--(A) GENERALLY.
A résumé.-The genesis of the Jîva-atom.-
Its general negational attributes, viz., Size-
Life-Vibration.-Definition of the atom.-Of
Jîva.—Adhyâsa, mutual reflection or super-
imposition of each other's characteristics.-
Universals, singulars, and particulars-indi-
viduals.-Animate, inanimate, all un-in-
animate.-Organic, inorganic, all-organic.-
Chemico-physical affinities, psychic sympa-
thies, psycho-physical parallelism.—The sig-
nificance of the distinction between animate
and inanimate.-Life, de .un, necrobiosis.-
The meaning of death. - Soul, body, and
causal envelope; Sthûla-Sûkşhma-Kâraṇa,
gross-subtle-causal; inner-outer-relational.-
Nucleus protoplasm - capsular - network.
Pseudo-infinite planes within planes.-Birth,
death, rebirth.-Patience, latence, develop-
ment. The Absolute.-Animate nature, inani-
mate nature, the Virât-Purusha.-Individuals
within individuals.-Various theories of phy.
sical science tending towards the same view.
-The need of judging things by their mutual
proportion. The birth of facts from laws 200-221
XIV. JÎVA-ATOMS-(B) OBJECTIVELY, i.e., ATOMS.
Other aspects and sub-divisions of Size-
Life-Activity.-Volume, form, measure: large-
small- average, long-round - ovoid, linear-
square-spherical, &c.—The primary form, the
sphere, including all possible other forms.—
Figure-symbology.—Period, filling, rate : long-
short average, well-filled-ill-filled-occupied,
fast-slow-even, &c.-Extent, rate, degree:
great-little-mean, high-low-even, intense-
sluggish, equable, &c.-The reason of these
triple sub-divisions.-Their simultaneity and
nothingness.-The undisturbedness of the
Absolute. Other triplets under mind and
matter; increase decrease - equality and
liberality-narrowness-tolerance; growth-decay-
continuance and pursuit-renunciation-equani-
mity; expansion - contraction - rhythm and
pleasure-pain-peace.-The characteristic attri-
butes of the atom, i.e., of matter, viz., Dravya-
Guņa-Karma.-Correspondences with other
triplets. The nature of Guņa, and its corre-
spondence with Chit.-The sub-divisions of
Guna.-Proprium, accident, attribute.-Con-
crete instances of essential properties.-Of
accidental qualities. Of attributes generally.
-The psychological nature of sensations.-
The pseudo-infinity of senses, and sensuous
qualities. All attributes present everywhere
and always. The nature of Karma.-Why it
corresponds with Sat.-Its sub-divisions.-
Expansion, contraction, vibration.-Kârmic
guņas, guņic karmas, &c., e.g., velocity, dul-
ness, movement, &c.—The nature of Dravya,
mere "this-ness."-Its correspondence with
Ânanda. The utter inseparability of the three
aspects of matter, Dravya, Guṇa, and Karma,
or This, Such, and Thus.'-The sub-divi-
sions of Dravya.-Positive weight, negative
weight, dead weight; heavy, buoyant, re-
sistant, &c.-Why Dravya corresponds with
Ânanda and Tamas.-The reason of varia-
tions in correspondence.-The simultaneous-
ness as well as succession of all these sub-
divisions. The concomitance of the three
aspects helpful in reconciling many conflict-
ing theories of physical science.-The appear-
ance of qualities, apparently exclusively cog-
nisable by one sense only, in the objects of
all the senses.-The Vedântic doctrine of the
quintuplication of all the sense-elements.-
Parallel changes of aspects.-Pseudo-infinite
varieties of Guna.-Of Karma.-Of Dravya.-
Pseudo-infinite variety of dimension, duration
and vibration of atoms.-Reconciled by the
existence of planes within planes
222-260
XV. JIVA-ATOMS-(C) SUBJECTIVELY, i.e., Jîvas.
The subjective aspects of Size, Life and
Vibration, viz., range, intensity, calibre, &c.,
as appearing in the inner life, of conscious-
ness.-The nature of consciousness.-In what
sense the word consciousness describes Brah-
man.-A re-statement of the genesis of the
three aspects of the individual consciousness,
viz., cognition, desire, and action.-Their sub-
divisions.-Cognition and action in terms of
each other. The multifarious triplets arising
under each. Mutual superimposition of attri-
butes between Self and Not-Self.-Pseudo-
infinite radiations and cognitions between
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