History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c39.s2.13

c39.s2.13

Vijnana-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. But even this is real only for our empirical (relative) consciousness, which intuits the relation of antecedence and sequence into the evolving Reals (*gunas*), in the stage of ‘empirical intuition’. The ‘intellectual’ intuition, on the other hand, apprehends the Reals as they are, without the empirical imported relations of Space, Time and Causality.