A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.355.2

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So also the bio-motor and sensori-motor principles apart from the directive Intelligence of the Self (प्राणस्य परिस्पन्दात्मकत्वादेव—यद् यत् स्थूलं सूक्ष्माञ्च तत्सर्वं मनःस्पन्दितमात्रम् — Sankara). The Sánkhya also conceives this Parispanda to characterise every process and phenomenon of cosmic evolution (व्यक्तं सक्रियं परिस्पन्दवत् --Váchaspati, Kaumudí). Bhútas, organisms, mental organs, as modes of Prakriti (considered apart from the Intelligence of Purusha) are all subject to this Parispanda (बुद्ध्यादयो देहं त्यजन्ते देहान्तरं उपाददते इति तेषां परिस्पन्दः । शरीरष्टथिव्यादीनां च परिस्पन्दः प्रसिद्ध एव ।—Váchaspati on Káriká 10). On the other hand, Prakriti as the Avyakta, the a-cosmic, the un-manifest ground, with resolution only of like to like (सदृशपरिणामम्), is devoid of all Parispandic motion (यद्यपि अव्यक्तस्यापि परिणामलक्षणा क्रिया, तथापि परिस्पन्दो नास्ति । ibid. on Káriká 10). The Nyáya-Vaiseshika finds Parispanda in all forms of matter, except A'kása which, in that system, is non-atomic and incapable of any change or activity ( निष्क्रय ). But all atoms from those of Váyu downwards, are in incessant motion. The world at bottom is an infinitude of continually whirling ( or vibratory ) particles (अनवरतपरिस्पन्दमानापरिमितपवनादिपरमाणवः—Raghunátha ; —compare also Udayana-Kusumáñjali, Stavaka V.—परमाणवः हि गतिशीलत्वात् पतनवत्प्रदेशाः पतन्तोति ।). All physical action consists in motion.