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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From all this it follows that the only basis for the relation of Cause and Effect consists in immediate sequence, and not in any action (or operation, on the part of the Cause).-(529)
It has been argued above by the Opponent (under Text 486) that, the Odour and other qualities that appear when the colour of the Jar has been destroyed, etc. etc.'; but this is not incompatible with the Buddhist's argument ;-this is what is shown in the following
TEXT (530).
AS REGARDS ODOUR AND OTHER QUALITIES (APPEARING IN THE JAR),
THE FACT OF THEIR BEING CAUSES OF EACH OTHER, AS FORMING FACTORS OF THE SAME CHAIN, IS ACTUALLY ADSITTED (BY US); AND THIS IDEA IS NOT ANNULLED BY THE ALLEGED ANOMALY OF THEIR BEING
SUCH CAUSES.-(530)
COMMENTARY. As regards Colour, Taste and other qualities, it is already admitted by ns that as forming part of the same chain' they are auxiliary causes of each other; as has been thus declared Without the action of Potonoy, there is no Cause of Taste; this is the only explanation of all past qualities that have oxisted at the same time, which is derived from the indications of their Efiecte ':-(530)
Says the Opponent :-" Just as Smoke appears in immediate sequence to Fire, so sometimes it may appear in immediate sequence to such things also as the Cow, the Horse and the life; then why cannot more immediate sequence be regarded as inconclusivo (in the proving of the Causal Relation)" Answer :
TEXT (531).
EVEN WHEN ONE THING APPEARS IN IMMEDIATE SEQUENCE TO ANOTHER, - IT IS ONLY IN SOME CASES (NOT ALWAYS) THAT THE LATTER IS THE CAUSE OF THE FORMER, WHERE THE SEQUENCE IS INVARIABLE; THIS IS WHAT IS ACCEPTED, IN VIEW OF SUCH BEING THE REAL STATE OF THINGS THE SAME IS THE CASE UNDER THE VIEW THAT THINGS ARE
PERMANENT.—(531)
COMMENTARY.
We do not say that mere immediate sequence is the basis of 'Causal Relation'); what we do assert is that one thing is to be regarded as the Cause