Sahrdayaloka Part 01

SR No.: 006908
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tapasvi Nandi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 602
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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Sabda-vyāpāra-vicāra
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Adhyāsa or superimposition is the cause of manifoldness which is only apparent. The difference of adjuncts makes for the distinction between class and individual. We fail to visualise a thing in its own real form. So, nothing separated from its adjunct-upādhi-is comprehended by us.-"nirupādhino vastuno'vyavahāryyatvāt sarva eva paropāśrayo vyavahāraḥ."-Helārāja.
So, observes Bhartrhari, that there is only one supreme thing beyond the limitations of time and space and possessing all activity by its very nature, and which is beyond division and distinction of any kind. -
"sarva-saktyā'tmabhūtatvam ekasyaiveti nirnayah, bhāvānām ātma-bhedasya
kalpanā syād anarthikā."-V. P. III. 22. Therefore, the categories or padārthas of the Vaiseșikas are not different objects of thought but they, in fact, stand for the various types of potency—or śakti — belonging to one and the same thing.--
"tasmād dravyāśrayāḥ sarvāḥ śaktayo bhinna-lakṣaṇāḥ, samsșştāḥ puruşārthasya
sādhika na tu kevalā."-V. P. III. 23. Thus, the division, into class and individual, of padārthas, is more formal or imaginary than real—"asmin mate sarvatraiva jāti-vyakti-pravibhāgah kalpitah”— Helārāja. And this division is not inconsistant with advaita-vāda. Bhartrhari says that the unreal and real elements in all the phenomenal entities, indicate respectively, class and individual
“satyàsatyau tu yau bhāvau pratibhāvam vyavasthitau, satyam yat tatra sā jātiḥ
asatyāḥ vyaktayaḥ smộtāḥ."-V. P. III. 32. Individuals are of short duration, of limited nature, and suffer distortions and mutations of various kinds. The class is such a reality whereof the essence or identity cannot be removed, and it remains above distortions and mutations of all types and its identity is absolutely unchanged, thus forming a life-giving essence of a thing as well as shining in its own form, detached from individuals.