Gandharavada

SR No.: 006739
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Esther A Solomon
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyasabha
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 400
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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our ordinary experience) the blacksmith is the grasper of (i. e. one who handles) the pair of tongs and pieces of iron.
(1569) Body, etc. must have an enjoyer, since they are fit to be enjoyed as man is the enjoyer of food. Body, etc. must have a lord (owner) since they are of the nature of an aggregate and for such other reasons (e. g. since they are corporeal, visible, etc), just as there is a lord of the house.
(1570) This maker, (controller, grasper, and so forth) is the soul. If you argue that this is just the opposite of what was to be established or these lingas are of the type called viruddha (contradictory, proving just the opposite of what is to be proved) because there is the contingency of the enjoyer-controller, etc) being corporeal, (visible, of the nature of an aggregate and so forth), then this is no defect in the transmigratory soul (-being enveloped in karma, it can be said to be corporeal).
(1571) O Gentle one! (even) in your view the soul does exist, because you have a doubt regarding it, just as the post and the man exist. O Gautama, that concerning which there is a doubt must exist there or elsewhere (i. e. somewhere).
(1572) (Indrabhūti:) If this is so it comes to this that the ass should have a horn. (Reply) It may not be on the ass itself, but it does exist elsewhere. This holds good of erroneous cognition too.
(1573) The counter-entity (vipaksa) of non-soul exists because it (the soul) has been negatel, as jar, the counterentity of non-jar exists. As in the case of 'The jar does not exist', this statement does not exist establishes the existence of the soul. (If a thing does not exist it cannot be negated).
(1574) It is established that what does not exist is not negated, for there is the denial of conjunction, etc. (inherence, universal, particular). But the quartet of conjunction etc. also is certainly present in other entities.