viśeṣa
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paramārtha · the holy ultimate · the supreme truth · ultimate particularity
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Tarkasaṃgraha
Fifth category; infinite differentiators residing in eternal substances, distinguishing otherwise identical eternal entities.
dravya (substance), guṇa (quality), karma (motion/action), sāmānya (universal), viśeṣa (ultimate particularity), samavāya (inherence), and abhāva (absence) — these are the seven padārtha (categories, knowables).
But the viśeṣa (ultimate particularities), which reside in the eternal substances, are indeed infinite.
The viśeṣa (ultimate particularities) are the differentiators residing in the eternal substances.
Vrhaspatitattva
The ultimate, formless reality beyond being and non-being, identified with the Lord, difficult to grasp and without characteristics.
Since forgetting has the nature of the unconscious, it is not right for you to call it the *paramārtha* (the supreme truth), the *viśeṣa*.
Since *saṃsāra* is consciousness, it is not right to call consciousness the ultimate (*viśeṣa*).
Just as it is with the fire and the oil, so it is with the holy *viśeṣa*.