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 VII.
TEXTS (182-183).
"THE TERM "atman '(SOUL) MUST BE EXPRESSIVE OF SOMETHING DISTINCT FROM THE AGGREGATE OF INTELLECT, SENSE-ORGANS AND THE REST,
BECAUSE IT IS HELD TO BE A SINGLE TERM, WHILE BEING DIFFERENT FROM THE WELL-KNOWN SYNONYMS OF THOSE TERMS; -WHATEVER IS DEFINITRLY KNOWN AS FULFILLING THESE CONDITIONS IS ALWAYS QUALIFIED BY THE SAID PROPERTY; AS IS FOUND IN THE
CASE OF THE TERM CLOTH '."-(182-183)
COMMENTARY
Being different from the welllenown synonyms i.e. such terms as "hi (which is a sonynymn of buldhi') and the rest, which are well-known synonyms of the term 'Buddhi'; the term "Soul' is distinct from all these syonyms.- Whatever is definitely known, etc.-i.e. which is different from well-known synonyms and is yet a single word -- is always qualified by the said properly, i.e. is alway, characterised by the quality of being expressive of something distinct from Intellect and the rest.-(182-183)
The same writer has also adduced a negative Reasoning in proof of the Soul—"This living body is not Soul-less, because if it were so, it would have to be regarded ns devoid of the functions of Breathing, etc., like the Jar and such things".
TEXT (184).
"TAS LIVING BODY WOULD BE DEVOID OF BREATHING AND OTHER FUNCTIONS,—BECAUSE IT WOULD BE SOUL-LESS, LIKE THE JAE.
HENCE IT CANNOT BE SOUL-LESS."-(184)
COMMENTARY
It cannot be Soul-le88,-i.e. the Living Body cannot be without a Soul.
Or the meaning of the Text may be that 'the Soul cannot be nonexistent ',-devoid of existence; that is, its existence is established.-(184)
As regards the question as to how the eternality and omnipresence of the Soul are to be proved,- Aviddhakarna has propounded the following argument :-"The cognitions that I have had since my birth must have had the same cogniser who had the first cognition immediately after my coming out of my mother's womb,-because they are my cognitions,-like my first cognition.-The same reasoning may be stated in regard to Pain and other experionces also.-This is the inferential reasoning that proves the eternality of the Soul."
This argument is set forth in the following Text :