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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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHATTER XI.
so tut there would be nouluing to be established by thu qunlity in question, establisher of status, Elasticity.
It might be argued thu Thu Qulity muy not to the catabiliser ; it muy bo the practicer of the Moment itself".
The answer to this is that this Momentum lucts not lees jounil to have causal character; the conviction regarding the mality of the truth about things is always dependent upon the Meous of Right cognition; and as a matter of fact the causal character of Moznentuin,--s someiling different from well-known causes-is not detinitely recognised in things like the Clotil by Perception and Non-apprehension, or as something difforent from the ordinary effects, as in the organs like the eyes; lience the notion in question cannot be based upon any such character.
If it be argued that--"evon though its causul potency has not been perceived, yet the fact of its being the Cause might be prostuvod".
If that be so, thon Momentum, or anything else, like the Porrot, the Orane, etc., might be the Cause,-i.e. presumed to be as such. The fact of its not being perceived does not constitute a positive peculiar fenture, by virtue of which it could be only by presuming the Morgentum, -and nothing olsu,-even though its potency has not been porceivod,--that you should be satisfied.
As a matter of fact, the Momentum in question has not been held by you to be the cause of production ; in fact it is held to be a quality in a thing 8.g, the Cloth is already produced, which re-establishes its former status ; and in this it is of no use, as already explained above.-And it is on admitting (for argument's sake) the possibility of its being the cause of production, that the above objection has been urged; the idea being that thore may bo some one who may cross beyond the limits of oven his own doctrine.
The last sentence- What therefore, etc. etc. * -sums up all that has been said above.-(689-690)
The Author next points out objections against the Qualities of 'Morit and Domerit'
TEXT (691).
Mind, Mind's Contact AND THE SOUL HAVING BEEN PREVIOUSLY DIS. CARDED, -THERE CAN BE NO UNSEEN FORON' OF THE KINDS
POSTULATED BY THE OTHER PARTY - (691)
COMMENTARY. "The Unseen Force (Dostiny) is what brings the fruits of an act to its Door,-it is a Quality of the Soul,-is produced by the contact of the Soul and Mind, and is destroyed by its own effect; it is of two kinds--the two kinds being Merit and Demerit; of these Merit becomes the cause of the Doer's happiness, welfare and liberation ; and Demerit bocoraes the cause of his happiness, calamities and sin."