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 (195-196),
THE 'RECALLING' OT SUCH XOTIONS AS BY ME (SEEN, HEARD) | ETC. MUST BE DUE TO PERTURBATIONS OF IGNORANCE, AS SUCH NOTIONS OF THE ONE-NESS OT THE AGENT (PERCEIVER) ARE FOUND TO APPEAR ALSO IN CONNECTION WITH ALL MOMENTARY THINGS. FROM THIS FALSE ASSUMPTION, IT CANNOT BE RIGHT TO DEDUCE ANY CONCLUSION REGARDING THE TRUE STATE OF THINGS; SPECIALLY AS EVEN THINGS THAT ARE DIVERSE BY BEASON OF THE DIVERSITY OF THEIR POWERS BECOME THE BASIS OF AN EFFEOT CONCEIVED OF AS one.-(195-196)
COMMENTARY.
Seen by me and heard by me, etc. etc.,-the recalling', in the 'associating' of several such cognitions, has been put forward as the reason for their having a single Canse (in the shape of the Soul').-But this reason is inconclusive' s even in regard to momentary things, such * recalling' is possible through the false assumption of their being due to a single Cogniser. Hence it cannot be right to decluce any conclusion regarding the true nature of things from the fact of such recalling
Question-"In what way do your Moments (Momentary entities) come to be the cause of the said Recalling (of Cognitions)
Answer-By reason of the diversity of their powers, etc. i.e. by reason of the peculiarity of its powers,--the thing which is many diverse) becomes the *baaia'-cause of such single effects being recalled in one form; as is found in the case of such medicince of fever as Curluchi and the rest ; all which is going to be explained in detail later on.-(195-196)
Question - "How is it ascertained that the notion in question is wrong?" The answer is provided in the following Text
TEXT (197).
IF MANY THINGS-SUCH AS THE COONITIONS OF COLOUR, SOUND AND THE REST, -WERE THE EFFECTS OF A SINGLE CONTINUOUS (PERMANENT) CAUSE, THEN ANY ORDER OF SEQUENCE AMONG SUCH EFFECTS
WOULD BE INCONGRUOOS; AS THEIR EYFICIENT
CAUSA WOULD BE ALWAYS THERE.--(197)
COMMENTARY.
If the cognitions of the Blue and the rest were the effect of a single such Cause as the Soul', which is eternal, continues for all time, past and future,