Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

SR No.: 007608
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 753
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 42 MB

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BOTI-GOD AND PRIMORDIAL MATTER.
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absence of those other things. Those that are not dependent for their existence upon other things, -as they do not need the aid of anything else-why should they appear at certain times only 1-(107)
Question-"How do you prove that there is self-contradiction' (in. congruity) in a thing operating upon itself!"
The answer is given in the following Text:
TEXT (108)
FOR INSTANCE, MERE NEGATION (ABSENCE) IS NOT REGARDED AS HAVING ANY ACTION UPON ITSELF-AS FOR THE WELL-ESTABLISHED POSITIVE ENTITY, IT IS WELL KNOWN AND RECOGNISED UNDER
THE CIRCUMSTANCES.-(108)
COMMENTARY.
When the nature' or 'essence of the Effect produces itself, is it itself an established entity or not? It cannot be an established entity; because under the circumstances, the said 'essence ie nothing apart from the established form ; so that the recognition is as established as the 'essence itself. Hence, as there would be nothing to be produced, whereupon could the Entits operate 2-(108)
Essence cannot be
The following Text proceeds to show that the sornething not-established:
TEXT (109).
TH ITS OWN ESSENCE IS STILL UNESTABLISHED, IT CANNOT BE OPER ATED UPON BY ANYTHING ;--BECAUSE IT IS BEREIT OF ALL POTENCY,
-LIKE THE SKY-LOTUS AND SUCH THINGS.-(109)
COMMENTARY.
Upon anything'—this is a general statement; the meaning is that it cannot operate either upon itself or upon any other thing. If it did operate, then it would itself be an established entity; as such operation is the only characteristic of an established entity.—109)
End of Chapler (3) dealing with the Doctrine of Primordial Matter
and God, both being the Joint Cause of the World.