XIV. JIVA-ATOMS — (B) OBJECTIVELY, i.e., ATOMS.

Other aspects and sub-divisions of Size- Life-Activity. — Volume, form, measure : large- small - average, long - round - ovoid, linear - square-spherical, &c. — The primary form, the sphere, including all possible other forms. — Figure-symbology. — Period, filling, rate : long- short - average, well-filled-ill-filled-occupied, fast-slow-even, &c. — Extent, rate, degree : great-little-mean, high-low-even, intense- sluggish, equable, &c. — The reason of these triple sub-divisions. — Their simultaneity and nothingness. — The undisturbedness of the Absolute. — Other triplets under mind and matter ; increase - decrease - equality and liberality-narrowness-tolerance ; growth-decay- continuance and pursuit-renunciation-equani- mity ; expansion - contraction • rhythm and pleasure-pain-peace. — The characteristic attri- butes of the atom, i.e., of matter, viz., Drayya- Guna-Karma. — Correspondences with other triplets. — The nature of Guna, and its corre- spondence with Chit. — The sub-divisions of Guna. — Proprium, accident, attribute. — Con- crete instances of essential properties. — Of accidental qualities. — Of attributes generally. — The psychological nature of sensations. — The pseudo-infinity of senses, and sensuous qualities. — All attributes present everywhere and always. — The nature of Karma. — Why it corresponds with Sat. — Its sub-divisions. — Expansion, contraction, vibration. — Karmic gunas, gunic karmas, &c., e.g., velocity, dul-
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ness, movement, &c. — The nature of Dravya, mere "this-ness." — Its correspondence with Ananda. — The utter inseparability of the three aspects of matter, Dravya, Guna, and Karma, or ' This, Such, and Thus.' — The sub-divi- sions of Dravya. — Positive weight, negative weight, dead weight ; heavy, buoyant, re- sistant, &c. — Why Dravya corresponds with Ananda and Tamas. — The reason of varia- tions in correspondence. — The simultaneous- ness as well as succession of all these sub- divisions.— The concomitance of the three aspects helpful in reconciling many conflict- ing theories of physical science. — The appear- ance of qualities, apparently exclusively cog- nisable by one sense only, in the objects of all the senses. — The Vedantic doctrine of the quintuplication of all the sense-elements. — Parallel changes of aspects. — Pseudo-infinite varieties of Guna. — Of Karma. — Of Dravya. — Pseudo-infinite variety of dimension, duration and vibration of atoms. — Reconciled by the existence of planes within planes ... 222 — 260