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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RELATION BETWEEN ACTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS.
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distinguish them and the result would be that there could be no such distinction as this is the Cause and that the Effect'.-(511)
In the following Text the author sums up his position and shows that there is no flaw in the view that the Effect is produced from the Cause while the latter is still in existence -
TEXTS (512-514).
THUS WE CONCLUDE THAT IT IS AT THE SECOND MOMENT THAT THE EFFECT
COMES INTO EXISTENCE OUT OF AN EFFICIENT CAUSE WHICH CAME INTO EXISTENCE AT THE TIRST MOMENT AND HAS NOT YET BEEN DESTROYED.IF IT HAD BEEN HELD THAT THE EFFECT COMES INTO EXISTENCE AT THE THIRD MOMENT, THEN IT WOULD COME OUT OF THE destroyed CAUSE AS THE CAUSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, LIKE THE EFFEOT ITSELI,-AS IS GOING TO BE EXPLAINED LATER ON-THERE WOULD BE SIMULTANEITY ONLY IF THE EFFECT HAD COME AT THE FIRST MOMENT. BUT THIS CANNOT BE RIGHT, BHING JUST LIKE THE DOOTRING OF THE EFFEOTS COMING INTO EXISTENCE ALONG WITH THE CAUSE.-(512-514)
COMMENTARY, As regards the alternative of the Effect coming out of the destroyed Cause, that is improper, as it is not hold by us. As that alternative would mean that the Effect comes at the third and subsequent moments, -as has been hold by the Vaibhāşikas, in such assertions as the one presents the effect) when it is past'; if this view were held, then it would mean the admission of the view that the Effect comes from the destroyed Cause ;-but such is not the view held by us; because it is devoid of reason.
There might have been some chance of the anomaly of the Cause and Effect being simultaneous if the view were that the Effect comes at the first moment; as these same Vaibhāşilcas regard the Cause as born along with the Effect'. This is entirely unreasonable.-(512-614)
Why this is unreasonable is shown in the following
TEXT (515).
WHAT DID NOT EXIST COULD HAVE NO POTINOY; IF THD POTENCY WERE THERE, THE EFFECT WOULD SURELY BE PRODUCED ; HENCE SIMUI/TANEITY BETWBEN CAUSE AND EFTEOT
IS OLEARLY INCONGRUOUS.-(515)
COMMENTARY.
When the co-born Cause (i.e. the Cause that comes into existence along with its Effect) produces its Effect, it can do so either while it is itself unborn,