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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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER V.
regarded as permeated by a common character, it is only an assumption based upon the fact of that character serving to differentiate them from such other things as are heterogeneous; for instance, in the case of such things as the Jar, the Cup and the Pail, etc.-oven though these are really distinct from each other,--the common character of Clay' is assumed, on the basis of the exclusion of all that is not-Clay. Even this assumed 'uniformness, consisting of being permeated by the nature of Sound, is not possible in the case of the things in question, such as, the Blue, the Yellow and the like; because we do not perceive the Sound-character in the Blue, the Yellow and such things; and when you do not perceive such a uniform character in them, how can it be assumed that, being permeated by Sound-character is due to the preclusion of what is not of the nature of Sound? Thus the assumption is entirely baseless and hence the reason is unproven, Inadmissible' (142-143)
It has been urged (under Text 136) that "all things would occupy the same point in space and would be cognised in one and the same form" :
-the following Text raises an objection from the point of view of the other party :
TEXT (144).
IF IT BE HELD THAT-" BRAHMAN IN ITS ESSENCE REMAINS EVER UNDIFFERENTIATED ; IT IS ONLY UNDER DISTURBANCE DUE TO
IGNORANCE THAT PEOPLE REGARD IT AS DIVERSE ".-(144)
COMMENTARY.
The following view might be urged by the Opponent: "The one Principle of Brahman remains always undifferentiated, -essentially unmodified ; in reality, there is no modification of It; what happens is that people having their minds and eyes clouded by the darkness of Ignorance, regard It as diverse, in such forms as the Blue and the like. This has been thus declared :
Even though Akasha (Space) is pure, yet obsessed by darkness, people come to regard it as limited and made up of diversified parts; in the same manner, though Brahman is immortal and unmodifiable, yet It appears to be sullied by Nescience and hence diversely modified'.-Under the circum. stances, there would be no such absurdity as all things occupying the same point in Space; because in reality all things are non-entities, therefore there would be diversity in their cognitions also,-the diversity being due to the oscillations of Nescience":-(144)
The above argument is answered by the following Texts :