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

Page 124

THE DOCTRINE OF WORD-SOUND,
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TEXT (149-150).
ALL CONSCIOUSNESS MUST BE CONSECUTIVE, AS IT MUST TOLLOW THE ORDER
OF SEQUENCE OF THE OBJECTS COGNISED; IF IT WERE NOT so,
ITS EFFECT IN THE FORM OF COGNITION WOULD COME ABOUT SIMULTANEOUSLY.-HENCE EVEN IN THE EFFECT IN THE FORM OF COGNITION, THERE IS NOTHING, APART FROM THE REJECTING AND ACQUIRING, WHICH COULD BE WITHIN THE POWERS OF Brahman; SO THAT IT BECOMES REDUCED TO THE POSITION OF THE SON OF THE BARREN WOMAN'.-(149-150)
COMMENTARY. All this has beeu proved under the section dealing with God (in Text 89).
Tatah param', 'apart from that';-.e, other than the Blue and other things which form the basis of the acts of rejecting and acquiring. Or the term ialah ' may be taken as the re-assertion of the Conclusion; the meaning being that it is something apart from the Blue and other things which form the basis of the acts of Rejecting and Acquiring-Or the terma latah' may be taken as the re-assertion of the Conclusion, in the form therefore it is true, real'.
The position of the Son of the Barren Woman'; for regarding the • Son of the Barren Woman' as a non-entity, there is no reason apart from the fact of his being incapable of effective action.-(149. 150)
The following might be urged :-"The said essence of Supreme Braloman is perceived only by such Yogins (Mystics) as have their mind aided by Merit leading to Prosperity and Highest Good",
This also is not possible ;-this is what is shown by the following Text:
TEXT (151). FOR THE SAME REASON EVEN MYSTICS WITH THEIR ORAIN OF PURE
CONSCIOUSNESS' DO NOT KNOW THAT FORM OF Brahman; AS THE NECESSARY CONNECTION COULD BE POSSIBLE ONLY
AFTER AN AOTION OF THE COGNITION ITSELT.-(151)
COMMENTARY. If the Mystic had operated upon the cognition born of mystic communion, then it might be admitted that Mystics perceive that form of Brahman. As it is, however, in the manner shown above, no such operation is possible ; hence this view cannot be right,
The following might be urged :-"When Mystics perceive that form of Brahman, it is not through the appearance of cognition relating to it; as apart from that, neither the Mystic nor the mystic cognition has any existence; what happens is that during the mystic state, Mystics perceive It as their own self, in the form of Light effulgent".