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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TATTYASAŃGRAHA: CHAPTER VII.
TEXTS (257-258).
ALL SUCH THINGS AS THE MIRROR, THE ROCK-CRYSTAL AND THE LIKE ARE THEMSELVES IN PERPETUAL FLUX; AND WHEN THEY BECOME CONNECTED WITH THE BLCE LOTUS AND SUOR OBJECTS, — THEY BECOME CAUSES OF BRINGING ABOUT THE ILLUSION REGARDING THEIR REFLECTIONS. IF THAT WERE NOT SO, EVERYONE OF THOSE THINGS WOULD BE ALWAYS ONE AND THE SAME,WHEN IN CONTACT WITH THE SAID OBJECTS, AS WELL AS WEEN not IX CONTACT WITH THEM; AND AS SUCH IT SHOULD BE SEEN EITHER AS ALWAYS WITH ITS REFLECTION OR ALWAYS WITHOUT ITS REFLECTION.
(257-258)
COMMENTARY.
The Rock-crystal, the Mirror and the like are things that are in a state of perpetual Aux,-undergoing destruction every mornent; and when they come into contact with the Blue Lotus and such things, they become masters in the producing of illusions (regarding the reflections of these things, which have no real existence, and whose Cognition, therefore, must be illusory, wrong).
Is that were not 80,- i.e. if it could reflect the image without being momentary,—then it would have to be admitted that the Mirror in contact with the object is the same as that not in contact with it; so that, even in the absence of the Blue and other reflected things, the reflection of these would be porceptible, as the reflector will not have abandoned its previous character (when in contact with the object);or, conversely, even when in contact with the object, it would be seen without the said reflections; as its form would not be different from its previous state (when not in contact with the object).
This argument serves to set aside the possibility of all reflections in general in any such reflecting substances as the Mirror and the like, under the view that things are not-momentary.- (257-258)
The Author now proceeds to refute the possibility of the perception of all Reflections, -under both theories that things are momentary and that things are not-momentary -