History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c39.s1.15

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The *gunas* are always uniting, separating, uniting again. 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. But though co-operating to produce the world of effects, these diverse moments with diverse 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*