Shloka 41
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
स्पर्शतन्मात्रमेवेह जायते नात्र संशयः ।
बलवान् जायते वायुस् तस्य स्पर्शगुणो मतः ॥
sparśatanmātram eveha jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ | balavān jāyate vāyus tasya sparśaguṇo mataḥ ||
अत्र स्पर्शतन्मात्रं सूक्ष्मं जन्यते—नात्र संशयः। ततः स्पर्शगुणो महान् वायुः प्रादुर्भवति, इति स्मृतम्।
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FAQs
Qualities (guṇas) are treated as diagnostic markers of reality-levels. In practice, it encourages observing experience (touch, movement) as properties of nature rather than of the self.
Sarga: continues the generation of mahābhūtas from their corresponding tanmātras.
Vāyu symbolizes prāṇa and dynamism; mastering ‘touch/movement’ inwardly hints at prāṇāyāma and regulation of life-force.