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THE TATTVAS.
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Time is the cause of continuity and succession. It is of two kinds, nishchaya and vyavahâra. The former of these is a substance, which makes simple units revolve on themselves, thus giving rise to the idea of progress or change in the same place, that is continuity ; but the latter is only the measure of duration, and depends on the succession of regularly recurring events of a universal type.
Dharma and Adharma are the two substances which are helpful in the motion and stationary states of things respectively, the former enabling them to move from place to place and the latter to come to rest from the condition of motion.
Space is the substance. which finds room for all other substances and things.
Four of these substances, namely, Time, Space, Dharma and Adharma, though necessary for the worldprocess, play no important part in the scheme of spiritual evolution. We shall, therefore, pags on to a consideration of the nature of the interaction between spirit and matter, without stopping to describe the remaining substances any further.
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