A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.53

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Vijñāna-bhikshu points out that this does not amount to a denial of Time. It means that time has no real (or objective) existence apart from the ‘moment’. But the latter is real, being identical with the unit of change in phenomena (गुणपरिणामस्य क्षणवचनात्). But even this is real only for our empirical (relative) consciousness (व्युत्थितदर्शन), which intuites the relation of antecedence and sequence into the evolving Reals (Gunas), in the stage of ‘empirical intuition’ (सविचारा निर्विकल्पप्रज्ञा). The ‘intellectual intuition’ (निर्विचारा निर्विकल्पप्रज्ञा) on the other hand, apprehends the Reals as they are, without the empirical imported relations of Space, Time and Causality.