A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.11

v2.c34.11

The Gunas are always uniting, separating, uniting again. (अन्योन्‍यामिश्रणाः सर्व्वे, नैषामादिसम्मयोगो वियोगो वा उपलभ्यते). Everything in the world results from their peculiar arrangement and combination. Varying quantities of Essence, Energy and Mass, in varied groupings, act on one another, and through their mutual interaction and interdependence evolve from the indefinite or qualitatively indeterminate to the definite or qualitatively determinate. (एते गुणाः परस्परोरक्तविभागाः संयोगविभागधर्माणः इतरेतरोपाश्रयेण उपाज्जितमूर्तयः।—व्यासभाष्य) But though cooperating to produce the world of effects, these divers moments with divers tendencies never coalesce. In the phenomenal product whatever Energy there is is due to the element of Rajas, and Rajas alone; all matter, resistance, stability is due to Tamas, and all conscious manifestation to Sattva. (परस्पराङ्गाङ्गित्वेऽपि असंभिन्नशक्तिप्रविभागाः—व्यासभाष्य। अन्योन्याङ्गाङ्गिभावेन उत्पादितऽपि द्रव्ये प्रकाशगुणाः सत्त्वस्यैव क्रियागुणः रजसएव स्थितिगुणस्तमसएव—विज्ञानभिक्षु योगवार्त्तिक on व्यासभाष्य, *ibid*—नैषां शक्तयः संकीर्य्यन्ते—वाचस्पतिमिश्र तत्त्ववैशारदी on व्यासभाष्य *ibid*).