What is the material cause?
what is the material cause of man?
Also, the idea that God is the material cause of the universe is rejected.
Shiva is the first cause: his shakti, or power, is the instrumental cause, maya the material cause.
Was the place destroyed by a "red wind," a "divine shout," an angry God using some other magic cudgel -- or by a more material cause?
But in a poor conductor, the charges being pushed around in the material cause resistance heating, just like that in the heating element of a hair dryer.
Dravya, or substance, the substratum that exists independently of all other categories, and the material cause of all compound things produced from it.
So the material cause of all these phenomena is the exhalation, the efficient cause sometimes the upper motion, sometimes the contraction and condensation of the air.
Now that with which the ancient writers, who first philosophized about Nature, busied themselves, was the material principle and the material cause.
God is not the material cause of the universe, since atoms and souls are also eternal, but is rather the efficient cause.
The world, because it is created by God (efficient cause) through his conscious power (instrumental cause) and maya (material cause), is no illusion.
