Concentration

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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it is viewed from. The philosopher starts out to find the cause for what he sees existing; he gets from solid matter to liquid, than to gaseous, and nebulous matter out of which he says the universe is made.
Or, if he is a religionist, he goes a certain distance in his analysis, gets tired, and stops. He tells you a word, he gives you an abstraction. He says God made the universe out of nothing. Here he contradicts himself because he admits when starting out that for everything there must be a cause; then there must have been a cause for his God. But the universe is not nebula, it is a living world of men, birds, beasts, vegetables, rocks, etc.
There is activity and there is substance. The substance is eternal, the activity of the matter is always changing. There is no substance that is not active, and there is no activity except in substance.
To say whether a statement is true, the aspect it is
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