SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

58 VOWELS AND CONSONANTS.
conjunction either. The only adequate expression to denote a
transition from an object cognition to a subject one is a change
of state. Language fails, analogy fails, to explain this union,
though in itself a fact ;
and it remains a mystery in a sense,
though to seek an explanation for an ultimate fact, can, in
no sense, be logical ;
and all that we can do has been done
when we have tried to generalize the various sets of pheno
mena into the fewest possible number, and if we cannot pass
to a higher generalization than two, we can only rest and
be thankful.
We are sure that this is a perfectly safe position to hold,
and our object in penning this article is in no way to differ
from this view; only we fancy, we have an analogy in Tamil,
which will exactly answear the point and make the union more
intelligible, besides bringing out the nature of mind and
matter, in a much more favourable light, than from the stand
point of a mere materialist, qualified or otherwise; and we
fancy we have been almost every day using language to
describe this union, though the name in itself is a puzzle, and
embodies both a paradox and a contradiction. Before we state
them, however, we will state one or two facts, so far as they
bear upon the relation of mind and matter, and which Dr.
Bain states more fully in his Mental Science. It is that, all
objectivity implies the subject-mind
at the same time. "All
objective states are in a sense also mental." Unless the mind
is present, though unconscious, you cannot have object know
ledge We at all. cannot have a pure objective condition at all,
without the subject supporting it, as it were, though for the
time being,
it is nonapparent, is entirely blotted out. (Sunyam).
Or rather shall we say, though dissimilar, the mind has become
thoroughly identified with matter. But mind can ascend to
pure subjectivity, and it does not imply the presence of objects,
as the object does the subject and in such a ; pure subjective
state, where is the object ? It has become also non-apparent
(Sunyam). Regarding the possibility, however, of matter b^ing
the primary element, there is this fact. Matter is found both as