XI. THE DVANDVAM — THE RELATIVE (Continued).

(C. — i.) SHAKTI-ENERGY AND NEGATION — AS THK RELATION AND THE CAUSE OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND THE NOT-SELF.
The significance of the Negation, in the permutations of the logion. — Various facts and beliefs corresponding to the permuta- tions.— The affirmation and the negation in- volved in the Not. — Consequences in the shape of the laws of alternation and rhythm. — The Chakra, wheel, of Pravritti and Nivritti, pursuit and renunciation. — Pseudo- infinite cycles. — Law and breaches of law subsumed under ever wider law. — The Neces- , sity of the Changeless Nature of the Absolute, as embodied and described in the logion, the
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one Cause of all causes. — The meaning of Cause. — The Whole the Cause of each Part. — The Necessity as Maya. — The etymology of Maya. — Correspondence between the evolu- tion of a language and a whole world-system. — Connection between Maya-Shakti and Nega- tion.— Shakti as might, power, energy, &c. — Its three attributes, viz., Avarana-Vikshepa- Simya ; attraction, repulsion, balanced alter- nation ; Srishti-Sthiti-Samhara, creation-pre- servation-destruction.— VidyS, Avidya, Maha- vidyS, Science, Prescience, Wisdom. — The worship of Shakti. — Confusion as regards Shakti and Prakriti in current Samskrit works. — Para, Apara, and Daivi Prakritis ... 138—169