Confluence of Opposites

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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knowledge of predicables of which there are six, namely, substance, attribute, action, genus, species and combination. Substances are nine in number-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Time, Space, Self and Mind. Attributes are colour, taste, smell, touch, number, measure, separateness, conjunction, disjunction, priority, posteriority, understanding, pleasure, pain, desire, aversion and volition. Throwing upwards, throwing downwards, contraction, expansion and motion are actions. Release from transmigration is obtained when action does not origin. ate in the mind that has become steady in the soul. Like the Nyayikas, the Vaiseshikas, did not originally acknowledge a world-making god, though they bowed to the authority of Vedas as the word of a qualified Teacher. The Yoga school of Hindu philosophy recognises (1) God as the ideal for contemplation, (2) Souls, and
(3) Matter, Release from transmigration is the aim of the soul It results in the cessation of pain which is to be attained in samadhi. Samadhi itself is the culmination or the last of a series of steps, called limbs of yoga. These steps are termed (1) ynma, (2) niyama, (3) asrna, (4) prândydama (5) pratyahara, (6) dhårnå, (7) dhyana and (8) samadhi.
Yama consists in the following five kinds of restraints ;