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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(v) DOCTRINE OF SOUL' ACCORDING TO THE DIGAMBARA JAINAS. 209
TEXT (321). FOR THIS REASON IT SHOULD BE ADMITTED, EITHER THAT THERE IS ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION OF ALL, OR THAT ALL IS PERMANENT (ETERNAL); exclusiveness AND inclusiveness COULD NOT
EXIST IN ANY SINGLE THING.-(321)
COMMENTARY. Any such comprehensive entity as substance', cannot be accepted, not only because it is non-different in nature from the successive factors, but also for the following reason (shown in the next text), it is not perceived apart from the successive factors' even when the conditions of its percaption are present, and hence it should be treated as 'non-existent. This is what is explained in the following
TEXT (322) AS A MATTER OF TACT, THERE IS NO PERCEPTION OF SUBSTANOE', WHICH SHOULD BE PERCEPTIBLE, AS SOMETHING PERMEATING THROUGH
(AND COMPREHENSIVE OF) THE SUCCESSIVE FACTORS, -HENCE IT CANNOT BE REGARDED AS EXISTING,
-LIKE THE 'Sky.LOTUS '-(322)
COMMENTARY.
This shows that the statement that " The Soul, in the form of Substance, is permeating through the Successive Factors', is apprehended by percoption itself" is not true; because as a matter of fact, no such substance as 'Soul' is perceived to appear, in that comprehensive (all-embracing) form, in any such Cognition as is admitted (by all parties) to be 'Sense-perception '.-(322)
Question.-" If it is so,-i.e., if thoro is no such substance as 'Soul', apart from the Successive Factors', -how do the distinctions of Number etc. come about ?"
The Answer is provided in the following
TEXT (323).
IN FACT, THINGS ARE CAPABLE OF DIVERSE FRUITFUL ACTIONS; THEY ARE CAUSES ON THE NOTIONS OF SIMILARITY' AND THE REST;
-AND THEY ARE AMENABLE TO CONVENTIONAL VERBAL
EXPRESSIONS CONNOTING SUCH THINGS.-(323)
OOMMENTARY.
The fruitful actione',-of the successive factors', Colour etc.,-aro diverse-of various kinds--distinguished as similar and dissimilar ;-the
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