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"'The four additional touch are formed by combination of four basic touch as follows:
(i) The negative charge (i.e. rūkņa) is associated with lightness. (ii) The positive charge (i.e. snigdha) is associated with
heaviness. (iii) Combination of cold sparśa and positive charge results in
production of soft sparśa. (iv) Combination of hot sparśa and negative charge results in
production of hard sparsa. Thus, there are two classes of material objects (i) those possessing four touch i.e., catuḥsparaśī and (ii) those possessing eight touch i.e., astsparsi. Out of the eight vargaņās (categories) of pudgala which intereact with the psychical existence, the last four are chatuḥsparsiwhile the first four are astasparsi. Out of the last four categories, the category of śvāsocchawās is considered to be aştasparśī by some ācāryas. The eight touch which can be grouped into four pairs refer to the following four physical properties of modern science: (i) Hot, cold correspond to temperature. (ii) Dry (rūksa) and gluey (snigdha) correspond respectively to
positive and negative electrical charges. (iii) Light, heavy correspond to mass (density) (iv) Hard, soft correspond to measure of hardness. (i) Temperature (Hot, Cold) The first pair hot (usna) and cold (śīta) refers to the physical property of temperature, which is the measurement of heat level. The range of temperature existing in nature is very wide. (ii) Electric Charge (Dry. Gluey) The quality of dryness and glueyness refer to the physical property of electric charge. The qualities play an important part in the formation of aggregates (skandha), just as positive and negative electric charges of subatomic particles play important role in the formation of atoms and molecules.
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