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vishesha

विशेष viśeṣa

'Particularity'; in Vaisheshika, the category of ultimate individuators that distinguish otherwise identical eternal atoms and souls. The school takes its very name from it.

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  • What is Vaisheshika? Philosophy

    Its very name comes from vishesha , particularity, the sixth of those kinds and the strangest, the bare thisness by which one thing is told finally apart from another when every other difference has run out.

  • Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy

    And then, in a single aphorism, Patanjali says exactly what this Lord is: क्लेशकर्मविपाकाशयैरपरामृष्टः पुरुषविशेष ईश्वरः ॥ klesha-karma-vipakashayair aparamrishtah purusha-vishesha ishvarah.

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