शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

30 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
actions, though sometimes they be a day old. Man is therefore
not able to remember his life in a previous state or birth, through
the changes in his mental and physical conditions and through
his feeble powers of retentiveness.
4. It was already shown how God was in Adwaitha relation
with the world. And this is not possible but for His Chit Sakti.
And the relation of Himself to the Sakti is described as a
Samavaya relation. This inseparable association is one and the
same thing but we can regard the one in two different aspects.
When we regard God in Himself apart from the world, He is
Sivam, Pure Sat. When we regard Him in relation with the
world, He is Sakti (Light, Energy, Chit.) When we regard the
Sun as a great Luminous Body, we speak of him as the Sun ;
when we regard it as shining on the whole earth, we speak of
its light. And now His relation with the world is what is
called Omnipresence. This word though used by every reli-
gionist is not understood properly. Its true significance can only
be understood when we understand what Adwaitham means. It
is in fact synonymous with it. Inasmuch as there are some
who understand Adwaitham as oneness, this word is used to
mean that he is everything and that there could be nothing but
him and there is no second thing as mind or matter. And the
simple logic by which this position is established is stated in the
following sentence.
“ Were we to exclude the Omnipresent Principle from one
mathematical point of the universe or from a particle of
matter occupying any conceivable space, could we still regard it
as infinite”? What does this mean ? Omnipresence means a space
relation. It is capable of extension, measurement. It can be
viewed as a mathematical quantity.
If we suppose one unit of quantity occupies one unit of
space, and the Omnipresent Principle and Matter being regard-
ed in units of quantity, of course it is impossible for one unit of