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Cause And Effect




Let's see how our seers observed motion and what the talk about cause and effect. Given slokha from Vaiseshikadarshanam 1.2 and its translation shows that how our seers observed various physical laws:



There is no effect possible without a cause. But the absence of effect does not mean the absence of cause.
The text also substantiates the above fact with an example: Applying a force (less than needed to overcome friction) will not make a body move. In this case, the cause (the force) is present but not the effect. 

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