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(B) MIMÄMSÄ DOCTRINE OF THE 'SELF'
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it should apprehend all things": -The answer to this is that even though Fire is always a burner, etc. Similarly, the Cognition does not always apprehond all things; for the simple reason that all things are not always in close proximity (to the organs, etc.)-(246)
How do you know that Oognition is eternal ?
Question Answer:
TEXT (247)
"COGNITION IS ALWAYS RECOGNISED AS BEING OF THE NATURE OF
INTELLIGENCE'; AS REGARDS THE COGNITIONS OF THE JAR, THE ELEPHANT AND SO FORTH, THEIR DIVERSITY IS HELD BY PEOPLE TO BE DUE TO THE DIVER
SITY AMONG THOSE THINGS."-(247)
COMMENTARY
The term 'tatra' is a meaningless termo izsed as introducing the sentence * Being of the nature of Intelligence' ;-because it is always recognised as Cognition, it is eterna), like the Word-Sound.
"If that bo so, then how is it that in common parlance, we find such distinction among Cognitions accepted by observers as this is the Cogni. tion of the Jar', that is the Cognition of the Cloth and so forth?"
Answerda regards the Cognitions of the Jar, etc. etc. due to the diversity among those things',-.e. the diversity among the Jar, the Elephant and the rest.-(247)
The same idea is further clarified by the following Teat
TEXT (248)
"PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW UP THE DIVERSITY AMONG THE OBJECTS COGNISED
DO NOT SPEAK OF THE COGNITION as 'THAT SAME COGNITION'; NOR IS THERE NON-RECOGNITION OF IT ASCOGNITION , 50 LONG AS NOTICE IS NOT TAKEN OF THE DIVERSITY
AMONG THE OBJECTS.” -(248)
COMMENTARY
People who follow up, etc. ; i.e. the Cognisers.-What this Text shows, by means of affirmative and negative premisses, is that the diversity in Cog. nitions is due only to diversity among the objects cognised.-Nor is there non-recognition, etc. ; that is, there is recognition.—(245)
The following Text proceeds to answer the above arguments :
| SR No. | 007608 |
| Book Title | Tattva Sangraha Vol 1 |
| 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 |