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world gives us two intrinsically separate things separate due to quality (i) Living, (ii) the Non-living. There is no third fundamentally separate thing. Therefore we can say that living and non-living things make up the world.
Both the ancient philosophy as well as the modern accept the principle " argar fagà ra: ar prar rà a:” ( That what is not can not be and what is is. ) Remembering this all-accepted principle if we consider, we realise that the world must be beginningless if it exists (Its existence is an undobted fact. ) It was not created by any being nor was it necessary to create it. This world composed of these two fundamental things existed always and will ever exist. The variety that is met with here is the result of the combining of these two things in various proportions. This can be clearly understood when this variety is analysed. As for example, earth is a non-living thing. The potter takes it up, puts it on the wheel and shapes it into a pitcher. Thus earth is changed into the form of a pitcher. In the same way different things under different conditions take different forms. This is the secret of earth’s variety. But when this external enve. lope of variety is rent as under to come to the root of things, we come across these two fundamental elements of living and non-living. These two are from times infinite and will exist till infinity.Therefore it is in the fitness of the things to say that the world exists from times immemorial and will exist till eternity. There is no creation nor destroyer of this. Six Elements.
The two fundamental principles described above resolve into six different elements when we consider the different
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