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of the world are subject to change and variations. Changing objects fail to maintain their self. sameness and identity as they are governed by the changing operations of the three attributes. All things in the world possess such attributes, therefore, it is conceived that there must be something that must be totally free from mutability and variations, and it must be identical with itself; as all change is caused by the operations of the three attributes in the composite things, so there must be something that must be free from these attributes, and hence quite simple in nature.
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It is further argued that there is always the need of controlling of things by agents; the Prakṛti has a very complicated net-work of relations in the infinite number of objects; therefore, it needs to have some intelligent controller and regulator, who must be managing the operations of the world in a uniform and systematic way. It is said in the Tattva Kaumudi, because the objects constituted by the three Attributes are such as are always controlled';- as a matter of fact it is found that every thing consisting in pleasure, pain, and delusion (i.e.,in the three attributes) is controlled by something else, e.g., the chariot by the charioteer; and the Great Principle and the rest have been proved to 'consist in pleasure, pain and delusion', therefore, they must have a controller-and this controller must be beyond the three Attributes and independent; and this is the spirit.""
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1 The Tattva Kaumudi, p. 62. Tr. Ganganath Jha.
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