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 : CHAPTER XII.
TEXT (705).
THE ACTION THAT IS REGARDED AS visible TS NOTHING DIFFERENT FROM THE object. EVEN SUCH EXISTENCE OF IT AS WOULD BE COMPATIELE WITH REASON, IS NEVER ACTUALLY
PERCEIVED.-(705)
COMMENTARY.
If a perceptible thing is not perceived, it comes to be regarded by intelligent men as non-existent'; - Cloth not perceived ntn certain place and Action is never perceived as apart from the Colour, etc. (of the object); hence this is a reason for regarding it as noturally not-perceived (and henco non-existent). As a matter of fact, Action never becomes manifest in any Sense-perception, as anything apart from the Colour, etc. of the object as produced in a different position. As regards such notions associated with verbal expressions, as "Throwing up!, Throwing down and the like, - they cannot be Perception, for the very reason that they are associated with verbal expression. Nor are they compatible with reason, if taken as associated with a distinct entegory in the shape of 'Action', because what are really seen are only the Colour, etc. as produced imdor certain conditions ; and the verbal expressions (names) also are applied only to these lattor, in accordance with Convention. This bas just been explained, when it was pointed out that no movement is possible in things either pormanent or impermanent
Thus it is not proved, as asserted, that the existence of Action is proved by Perception itself.-(705)
The nbove arguments are swined
in the following
TEXT (706).
THUS GOING' AND TIL REST ARE IMPOSSIBLE EITHER IN PERMANENT OR IMPERMANENT THINGS; BECAUSE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THEM RITHER TO BE SEPARATED FROM THEIR TORMER PLACE,
OR TO GET AT ANOTHER PLACE.—(706)
COMMENTARY.
TILS,-i.c, bocause it has been discarded by Inference and Perception, as just alıown above.
Because it is not possible, etc. etc.' ;-.. because separation from the former place is not possible; and because junction with another place is not porrible. The words are to be construed in the respective order.-(706)
Question-" If this is so, then how is it that people spenk of Going?" Answer :