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DOCTRINE OF PRIMORDIAL MATTER.
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essence as that Matter, would be a single substance having the same character and form as that Matter : so that there could be no such distinction among Products As Cosmic Intelligence', 'I-principle', 'Five Rudimentary Substances and so forth; and this would mean that the World is entirely devoid of modification'.- Similarly, it is only in the absence of any such Cause as Primordial Matter that the activity of the Potter and other Agente towards the making of the Jar and other things, in accordance with their potencies (powers), would be possible,—which would not be possible if there were such a single Cause as Primordial Matter. This is what has been already explained under Text 21, by the statement-Nor would there be any efficiency, nor any operation'.
The distinction into . Cause' and 'Effect also is possible only in the absence of any such single Cause as Primordial Matter'. It has been already pointed out above that no diversity in the world would be possible if there were any entity as Primordial Matter (as the one Cause) :-it has also been pointed out that if Primordial Matter were the Cause, then the whole world would be of the same essence as that Matter, which would lead to the absurdity that the entire world is a single substance (without any diversities); and under the circumstances, as there would be no diversity of forms' at the very outset, how could there be any merging' of it (as declared in the Sarikhya kārika, 15)-(45)
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ends the Section on the Eramination of the Doctrine of
• Primordial Mauer'.
