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same grounds the basic matter of a so called newly discovered thing did exist in the universe since the times immemorial. The matter simply has undergone a change in phase-form. Thus our contention that no new thing is created is quite sound and reasonable. A matter with change in the form does not give rise to a new matter, as the original matter at the base remains the same."
Nowadays the word 'atom' has attained great popularity. Newspapers daily publish something or the other about ATOM-BOMB and atomic missiles. Even small children are heard chatting about them. The much-spoken of atom is not an atom in reality. It is a composite body after all, as the same could not have been split up if it were an atom. A modern scientist claims to split up an atom and generate profundity of energy thereby, but an atom proper is incapable of disintegration. Only a composite body can be disintegrated and not an atom proper. Thus the popular 'atom' is not an atom proper but a composite body.
Bodies with very subtle effective operations are not perceptible to the eyes and those with gross effects are perceptible. Out of six entities only pudgal-'matter' is perceptible and can be perceived with other senses too. Whatever we perceive in this universe is the product of Pudgal (matter).
When infinite number of bodies with similar characteristics conjoin then the process is known as 'Varganā'. 'Sujatiya' means falling in the same class. Here class means a group of things with similar characteristics. The words Rajput, Bania, Brahmin, farmer, Goldsmith, Tailor, Carpenter, blacksmith, cobbler, weaver, denote a class. Two Rajputs belong to the same class. Two Banias also fall in the same class. Similarly a body constructed with same types of atoms belongs to the same class with another body constituted with the same types of atoms. Bodies formed by atoms of similar characteristics are infinite in number and consequently ‘Varganas' are also infinite in number.
Firstly you have cognisance of a thing in general and then you have cognisance of a thing in particular and then you describe the same in details. First when you are introduced with Chunilal Sheth people say 'Here is Chunilal Sheth. Then his place of residence, his age, his profession, his nature etc. are described. Then you get full introduction of Chunilal Sheth. Then you wish
