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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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PERMANENCE OF THINGS. 269
TEXTS (441-443).
THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF MOMENTARY THINGS '--SOME ARE CAUSES OF DECADENCE,-E.G. TIRE IS THE CAUSE OF THE DECADENCE (DIMINUTION) OF COLD ; AND OTHERS ARE NOT SO.-PEOPLE, NOT PERCEIVING THE TRUTH, THINK THAT THERE IS ANTAGONISM OF VARIOUS KINDS AMONG THINGS, EVEN WHEN THE RELATION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT IS THERE. AS A MATTER OF FACT HOWEVER THERE IS NO REAL
ANTAGONISM AMONG THINGS, IN THE SHAPE OF THE RELATION OF THE DESTROYER AND DESTROYED. IT TS IN THIS SENSE THAT THE EXPRESSION NOTION OF ANTAGONISM HAS BEEN USED.
-(441-443)
COMMENTARY. There are certain things which become causes of the decadence of certain other things,-the decadence' consisting in the production of *moments of gradually decreasing degrees of intensity; for instance fire is the cause of such a decadence of Cold-while there are other things which are not 80,-i.e. not causes of the decadence of things; 0.g. Fire is not the cause of the decadence of smoke.--Among the former-i.e. among the causes of decadence, even though there is the relation of cause and effect, yot people, having their powers of vision bedimmed by ignorance, think that there is 'antagonism (between the said cause and the thing whose decadence has beon brought about), of various linds,-.g. Fire is antagonistic to Cold, Air is antagonistic to the Lamp, Light is antagonistic to Darleness and so forth.-In reality, however, there is no such antagonism among things as that betwoon the destroyer and the destroyed; because when an entity comes into existence, it does so in its complete form, and it is impossible to bring about any change in the nature of a thing : there oan bo no cause for any such change, whether it be different or nondifferent from the thing. As regards the non-entity, nothing can be done to it, simply because it is non-existent.So that in both ways, the 'antagonist' can do nothing. It is for this reason that the Teacher has declared that when your cause is there in its perfect form, and yet there is non-existence (of its effect) while something else is existent, it is spoken of as antagonism': it is only a notion of antagonism ; i.e. there is no real antagonismo.
The particle 'api' stands for cha', and should be construed after Eva':-(441-443)
In the following Texts, the author sets forth argumente against the doctrine of the Perpetual Flux, from the standpoint of the followers of Jaimini and others