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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TATTYASANGRAHA: CHAPTER VII.
acter. This argument may be formulated thius:-One who has not abandoned his previous States of non-doer and non-experiencer can never do or ecperience, e.g. the Akasha -and the Soul never abandons its State of nondoor and non-experiencer; hence we find (in the assertion concerned) conditions contrary to the more extensive character.-(272)
The revered Dinnaga having declared that if the fact of the Soul being Inodified on the appearance of Cognition meant the non-eternity of that Soul, then, there can be no Cogniser in the shape of the Sou not modified';in answer to this declaration, Kumarila has argued as follows:-“ We are not denying the fact of the Soul being expressed (spoken of) by the term
non-eternal'; but if the term meant mere modification, then that alone would not imply the destruction of the Soul."-(Shlokavirtika. Ātmavida, 22).
Against this the Author states the following objection, which also serves to sum up his own conclusion :
TEXT (273) FOR THESE REASONS, WE ARE NOT DENYING THE FACT OF THE SOUL BEING SPOKEN OF BY THE TERM - ETERNAL', BUT ON ACCOUNT OF ITS FORM BEING SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION, THERE
MUST BE DESTRUCTION OF IT. -(273)
COMMENTARY.
For these reasons, we are not denying the fact of the Soul being spoken of as 'eternal', on the ground that Sentience, which is in a State of perpetnai flux, continues undestroyed, along with its Cause, as long as the world lasts. But its form-nature-being subject to modification, as there is always the abandoning of the preceding and the appearance of the succeeding form,its liability to destruction is clearly indicated.-(273)
As regards the instance of the Serpent, etc. that has been cited above (under Text 223),—the following Text proceeds to show that all these things are not found to be eternal and of one and the same form :
TEXT (274).
THE SERPENT ALSO IS LIABLE TO BECOME OROOKED AND SO FORTH, BECAUSE IT IS SUBJECT TO PERPETUAL FLUX; IF IT HAD A PERMANENT FORM, THEN, LIKE THE SOUL, IT COULD
NEVER COME BY ANOTHER STATE,-(274)
COMMENTARY
Just as in the case of the Soul.-because of its being always of one lasting character, there is no possibility of another State,--so in the case of the