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METAPHYSICS
(1) substance, (2) attribute, (3) action, (4) genus, or general qualities, (5) species, or special attributes, (6) combination, and
(7) non-existence, Amongst the substances is mentioned atman or soul ; but attributes are said to be " colour, taste, smell, touch, number, measure, separateness, conjunction and disjunction, priority and posterity, understanding, pleasure and pain, desire and aversion, and volition" (SBH. Kanada Sutras),
There is no mention of bliss amongst these unless it be included in the term pleasure, which according to Naiyayikas is only a form of pain (The Nyaya Sutras by S.C, Vidyabhushan, pp. 122-123). No positive contents of knowledge are mentioned even with reference to moksha which is simply described as consisting in "the non-exis. tence of conjunction with the body, when there is, at the same time, no potential body existing, and conse. quently no rebirth can take place". No true explanation is given of bondage or transmigration, and there is no mention or consideration of the real tattvas The arguments employed are chiefly concerned with fanciful abstractions, while scientific treatment is almost invariably wanting.
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