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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(B) MIMĀNSĀ DOCTRINE OF THE SELF'.
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TEXT (259).
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE MIRROR-SURFACE CAN NEVER CONTAIN THE
REFLECTION (OF ANYTHING), —BECAUSE IT IS LASTING, BECAUSE IT IS INDIVISIBLE, AND BECAUSE SEVERAL THINGS WITH
MATERIAL SHAPE CANNOT SUBSIST TOGETHER.- (259)
COMMENTARY
Because it is lasting, i.e. not momentary, therefore the Mirror surface cannot contain the reflection.
Even if it is momentary, it cannot contain the reflection because it is indivisible; when the reflection is perceived it is perceived as if it were inside the mirror, just as the Water is perceived inside the well ; and yet the Mirrorsarface las no parisi... vacant space ;-because its component particles are closely packed. Hence the perception of the Reflection must be an illusion.
Or the term nirvibhāgatra, indivisibility', may stand for absence of difference between the previous and succeeding states; and the reason for this absence is because it is lasting'; so that the meaning comes to be because on account of its lasting character it is devoid of difference between its previous and succeeding states'; that is, because it has no previous or euc. ceeding states.
Further, because several things with material shape cannot subsist together, * the Mirror-surface cannot contain the reflection', this has to be construed here. Because what are perceived in the Mirror-surface are only reflections occupying the same space; material things with forms can never occupy the same points in space; as if they did, they would become one and the same.
This objection is applicable under both views—of things being momentary or non-momentary.-(259)
The Rock-crystal also does not become transformed into the reflected image of the object placed by it; this is what is shown in the following Text :
TEXT (260).
PERSONS STANDING ON THE TWO SIDES OF IT PERCEIVE ONLY THE PURELY WHITE ROCK-CRYSTAL; HENCE IT FOLLOWS THAT THIS ALSO DOES NOT
BEOOME TRANSFORMED INTO THE REFLECTION (260)
COMMENTARY.
For instance, the man standing in front of the Rock-crystal placed in contact with the Hibiscus Flower, perceives it as red; while persons who may be standing on two sides of it would perceive it as purely white,-not even as partly red and partly white.-Now if the Rock-crystal had become transformed into the reflection (of the Flower), then, just like the man standing