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DIFFERENT FORMS OF MATTER
bells, etc. Sauşira is that produced through wind-instruments such as the flute, the conch, etc.
Union is of two kinds, natural and that produced by the efforts of human beings. The first kind of combination of matter is caused by the mixing of smooth and rough partioles of matter (positive and negative electric charges) in lightning, weteoric showers, rainfall, fire, rainbow, etc. Union producent by the efforts of human beings is twofold, union of non-living things and union of the living and the non-living. Instances of the union of non-living things are resin, wood and 80 on. The second kind of union consists of bondage of karma and nokarma (which aids the fruition of karmas). Fineness is of two kinds, extreme and relative. Extreme fineness is found in the indivisible atoms. Instances of relative fineness are the wood-apple, myrobalan, plum, etc. Grossness also is similarly of two kinds, extreme and relative. The instance of extreme grossness is the biggest. molecule of matter pervading the entire universe. Instances of relative grossness are the plum, myrobalan, wood-apple, palmyra fruit, etc. Shape is of two kinds, that which can be defined and that which cannot be defined. The regular geometrical shapes such as the circle, the triangle, the rectangle, the square, the globe, etc., are instances of the first variety. The clouds etc. may be of various irregular shapes, which oannot be exactly desoribed. These are instances of the latter variety. Division or separation is of six kinds, sawing a piece of wood, grinding barley, wheat, etc. into flour, breaking a pitcher etc. into potsherds and other fragments, threshing out black gram, green gram, eto., dividing mica into many layers and omitting sparks of fire by hammering a redhot ball of iron etc. Darkness is the opposite of light and obstruots vision. An image (shadow) results from obstruction of light by an object. It is of two kinds, images as seen in a mirror and uninverted images like shadows. In the first of these, the left side becomes right and the right side beoomes left. Warm light is heat and light combined, emanating from the sun etc. Cool light is the light issuing from the moon, the firefly (glowworm), jewels, etc. Sound and the rest are the
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