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EXAMINATION OF THE CATEGORY OF ACTION.
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TEXT (707). THE NOTION OF 'GOING' IS AN ILLUSION, AS IN THE LAMP-FLAME,
DUE TO THE APPEARANCE OF DIFFERENT BUT SIMILAR THINGS
BUINO FOUND CONSECUTIVELY IN DIVERSE PLACES (707)
COMMENTARY.
Different out similar things'; different and similar are compounded first, then that compound is compounded with things'.Of these different and similar things,—there is appearance (birth)—which is consecutive,-.e in a place other than that of its own Cause, when such appearance is seon, there arises, from it, the notion that it is going';
- just as in the case of the Lamp-flame, when it is being carried by someone, there appears the notion that the Lamp-fame is moving '; while certainly the same Lamp-flame does not move from one place to another ; because it has been held (even by the Vaishēşika) to last for six moments only. Further, what is called the birth ' (appearance) of a thing consists in mere Being, entirely devoid of any preceding or succeeding end ; and the apprehension of such 'birth' or appearance' is only natural.
Or janmanah' may be construed as Ablative; the sense beingbecause things are born consecutively, therefore different and similar things are perceived in different places -(707)
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