History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c14.s1.11

c14.s1.11

The totality of the *gunas* in the universe remains always constant, taking together the manifested and the unmanifested, the actual and the potential. It is only the changes or differences in their collocation or aggregation which are responsible for the diversity of phenomena and objects. This implies a principle of the conservation of the mass-stuff and the energy-stuff, as well as of their transformations The law of causation then follows directly from this.