A History of Indian Philosophy v2.c19.s2.4

v2.c19.s2.4

A comparison of numerous passages like these shows that each mental creation is the result of a creative thought-movement called *bhāvanā*, and each successive movement in the chain of a succession of developing creative movements is said to be *ghana*, or concrete. *Ghana* has been paraphrased in the *Tātparya-prakāśa* as accretion (*upacaya*). *Bhāvāna* is the same as *spanda*; as the result of each thought-movement, there was thought-accretion (*ghana*), and corresponding to each *ghana* there was a semi-statical creation, and following each *ghana* there was a *spanda* (*ghana-spanda-kramāt*).