Pravachanasara

SR No.: 003289
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 612
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 16 MB

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Translation of
[II, 71
71. The primary atom has no space-points; it is an unit of space-points and itself having no quality of sound; being arid or cohesive it comes to have two or more space-points.1
72. It is said that the points of aridness or cohesiveness of an atom, because of transformation, increasing by one from one onwards, attain infinity.
73. Atomic modifications, cohesive or arid, whether (having) even or odd points, bind mutually, when ordinarily there is the difference of two points, the minimum point being excepted.2
74. An atom with two points of cohesiveness binds with an atom of four points of cohesiveness or aridness; and that of three points with that of five points.
75. The gross entities (or molecules) which have two or more space-points and the subtle or gross earth-water-fire-air bodies come to have different shapes according to their modifications (of the qualities of cohesiveness or aridness).
76. The physical world is thickly packed everywhere with material bodies, subtle and gross, capable of being received or not (by the soul).
77. The molecules capable of becoming Karmas, coming into contact with the (passional) conditions or transformations of the soul, are developed into Karmas; and not that they are so transformed by the soul.
78. Those material bodies, which are transformed into Karmas, go to form the bodies, when the soul is passing into one more body again.
79. The physical body, the transformatory body, the electric body, the translocational body and the Karmic body: all these are made of material substance.*
80. Know that the (pure) soul is without (the qualities of) taste, colour, smell, touch, and sound; it is all the quality of sentiency; it is beyond inferential mark; and it has no definable shape.5
81. Material objects possessing the qualities of colour etc., mutually bind on account of their qualities of touch (viz., cohesiveness
1. See P. 77, 78, 81 etc.
2. TS. V, 33-37.
3. On the significance of skandha see P. 74 etc.
4. TS. II, 36.
5. This gatha is the same as P. 127.