X. THE DVANDVAM — THE RELATIVE (continued).

(B) MULA-PRAKRITI — THE NOT-SELF,
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The various significant names of Mula-pra- kriti. — Its essential nature and characteristic. — The consequences ensuing from that nature. — The birth of the world's endless diversity (a) of pseudo-infinite particulars (b) in pairs (c) mutually and positively opposed, and so always abolishing each other. — The meaning of arbitrariness ; its absence from the world- process taken as a whole. — The continuum of the world-process, in consequence of the in- divisibility of the Absolute, appearing in the fact that everything is everywhere and always. — The false assumption by the Not-Self of the characteristics of the Self, infinity, eternity, &c. — The explanation of why two or rather three parts are distinguishable in the partless
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logion. — The meaning of ' illusion.' — The safeguards present in the logion itself against all possible impeachments. — Why matter is uncreatable and indestructible. — The mutual balancing of increase and decrease, action and reaction. — Some suggested lines of thought. — How three moments are distin- guishable in the partless Absolute. — Their simultaneousness despite succession. — The world-process a device for the reconciliation of the antinomies of the reason. — Distinction between ideal and real, thought and thing, abstract and concrete. — The special attributes of Mula-prakriti, viz., Sattva-Rajas-Tamas, Cognisability-Movability-Desirability, corre- sponding to Guna-Karma-Dravya, Quality- Movement-Substance. — Universal presence of all, with predominance of one, of these three. — The worship of the Not-Self ... 118 — 137