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buys it and constructs a house from it. With passage of time the house falls to the ground and the brick crumbles back to become earth. In these instances the basic matter is earth. It has undergone the following changes of modes: –
1. From earth to brick, 2. From brick to house, 3. From house to rubble, and 4. From rubble to dust or earth again.
All these are changes of mode. The basic matter was earth, which was in the dust mode earlier and had been cast into a brick. The dust mode was destroyed, the brick mode was created but the basic matter - earth - remained the same in both these modes. Again, the brick mode gave way to house mode with the brick mode having been destroyed and the house mode coming into being. When the house falls to become rubble and when it is once again converted into dust the similar changes in modes take place. As far as the earth is concerned it was there in the dust mode, it was there in the brick mode, it was there in the house mode, it was there in the rubble mode and it is still there in the reconverted dust mode and it will remain the same in any other changes of modes that might be there in the future. The modes or the shapes of the basic matter -- earth - have undergone the change, they have been created and destroyed but the earth maintained its permanence. That is the way of the reality – production, destruction and permanence. Changes In Six Substances -
We have described the changes in the living matter and the tangible non-living matter or pudgala. The other four substances are - medium of transition or ether, medium of position or antiether, space and time. They also undergo change of modes constantly and remain constant as well. Let us see how?
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