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THE SIDDHANTA.
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class comprises Space, Time, that two kinds of ether and matter, and is called ajiva (a=not+jiva soul) to distinguish it from jiva, the conscious substance, i.e., spirit. We shall take up the five ajiva substances one by one to ascertain their nature.
space
To begin with space, Bergson's account of the origin of is so highly interesting and instructive, that we cannot refrain from giving the following abridged passage from his' Creative Evolution'
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"When a poet reads me his verses, I can interest myself enough in him to enter into his thought, put myself into his feelings, live over again the simple state he has broken into phrases and words. I sympathize then with his inspiration, I follow it with a continuous movement which is, like the.inspiration itself, an undivided act. Now, I need only relax my attention, let go the tension that there is in me, for the sounds, hitherto swallowed up in the sense to appear to me distinctly, one by one, in their materiality. For this I have not to do anything; it is enough to withdraw something. In proportion as I let myself go, the successive sounds will become the more individualized; as the phrases were broken into words, so the words will scan in syllables which I shall perceive one after another. Let me go further still in the direction of dream: the letters themselves will become loose and will be seen to dance along, hand in hand, on some fantastic sheet of paper. I shall then admire the precision of the interweavings, the marvellous order of the procession, the exact insertion of the letters into the syllables, of the syllables into the words and of the words into the sentences. The further I pursue this quite negative direction of relaxation, the more extension; and complexity I shall create; and the more the complexity in its turn increases, the more admirable will seem to be the order which continues to reign, undisturbed among the elements. Yet this complexity and extension represent nothing positive; they express a deficiency of will, And, on the other hand, the order must grow with the complexity, since it is only an aspect of it. The more we perceive, symbolically, parts in an indivisible whole, the more the number of the relations that the parts have
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