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MYSTICISM IN INDIA
properly speaking which enter into the formation of things. These are the 24 forms of Prakriti which with the Purusha:-soul make up the 25 elements into which the Sankhya resolves the whole Univere.
Al pain is the result of Rajas; all gtossness, ignom rence, darkness of Tamas; all pleasure, passivity, knowledge, peace of Sattva. The mind is a result of Rajas, and it is Sattva alone which by its light illumines it and enables it at times to catch glimpses of the blissful" Purusha:-soul ever near to Sattva. Al experience consists of mental representation the Sattve being clouded, obscured or entirely covered over by the nature or property of the representotion. This is the root of the evil. The act of the mind cognizing objects, or tachnically speaking taking the shape of objects presented to it is called Vritti or transformation. It is the Dritti which being coloured by the presentation, imparts the same colour by representation to Sattva and causes evil, misery, ignorance and the like. All objects are made of three Gunas or properties; and when the Vritti sees everywhere nothing but Sattva, to the exclusion of the other two, presentation and representation become purely Sättvika, and the internal Sattva of the cognizer realizes itself everywhere and in everything. In the clear mirror of Sattva is reflected the bright and blissful image of the ever present Purusha who is beyond change and
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