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

Page 272

EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PERMANENCE OF THINGS. 277
It has been argued (under Text 456) that-"Sense-perception is the highest among the Means of Right Cognition " ;-that also is not true.-- This is shown in the following
TEXT (460)
TEE CHARACTER OF BEING IN ACCORDANCE WITE THE REAL STATE OF THINGS 'BEING EQUALLY PRESENT IN ALL FORMS OF VALID COGNITION, -WHY SHOULD THERE BE A PREJUDICE AT ALL-IN CASE THE BAD CHARACTER BE NOT PRESENT IN Inference AND THE REST, THEN THESE LATTER WOULD NOT BE VALID MEANS
OF Rigur COGNITION AT ALL.-(460)
COMMENTARY
The validity of the Means of Right Cognition consists only in their having the capacity to bring about the right notion of things; and if this is admitted as belonging to all the Means of Right Cognition,-then, why should Perception be regarded as the highest' among them ?-It might be said that "it is Perception alone that is in strict accordance with the real state of things", -then, this character of being in strict accordance with the real state of things being absent in Inference and the rest, these lattor would not be
Means of Right Cognition at all; because the very ides of being a Means of Right Cognition' is based upon accordance with the real state of things; and this (ex hypothesi) would be absent in Inference and the rest.-(460)
The following Te.ct introduces the arguments advanced by Bhavivikta (against the doctrine of Perpetual Flux)
TEXT (461).
" THE ALL-COMPREHENSIVE INVARIABLE CONCOMITANCE (PREMISS) THAT HAS BEEN ASSERTED IN ALL THE REASONINGS (PROPOUNDED BY THE BUDDHIST) BEOOMES ANNULLED BY THE FOLLOWING INFERENCE ; OR ELSE, THE PROPOSITION (ASSERTING THE DOCTRINE IN QUESTION) ITSELF BECOMES
REJECTED."-(461)
COMMENTARY
Question :-"What is that Inference ?" Answers