CAUSE & EFFECT

The Buddha had disclosed 28 numbers of Pure Properties which he named as Rupa in Describing the space.

1.       Patavi - Hardness

2.       Apo - Liquidity

3.       Thejo – Temperature

4.       Wayo – Pressure

5.       Wanna - Colour

6.       Gandha – Smell

7.       Rasa - Taste

8.       Oja (Ahara) – Livelihood

9.       Shabda - Sound

10.   Chakku Prasada – Sense of Colour

11.   Sotha Prasada – Sense of Sound

12.   Ghana Prasada – Sense of Smell

13.   Jiwha Prasada – Sense of Taste

14.   Kaya Prasada - Sense of touch

15.   Wasthu Prasada – Sense of Knowing

16.   Sthri Bhawa – Female Character

17.   Purusha Bhawa – Male Character

18.   Jeewitha – Function

19.   Aksha – Void

20.   Kayika Sannivedana – Physical Contact

21.   Vachika Sannivedana – Audible Contact

22.   Lahutha – Lightness

23.   Mudutha – Softness

24.   Kammagnutha – Readiness

25.   Upachaya – Associativity

26.   Santhathi – Continuity

27.   Jara – Decay

28.   Anichcha – Uncertainty

These properties exist in cohesive function either in responsive or in repulsive manner.

Such associated existences are composed with minimum of first 8 properties and could grow up to a maximum of 27 properties.

A group of such associative properties are called Rupa Kalapa and all groups are inclusive of first 8 properties.

The function of properties coming in association is called Sankara.

As There is no logic or a reason for Sankra, Buddha had named it Avijja-No Science.

Thus, he called it Avijja Pacchaya Sankara

The root  of Cause & Effect.