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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TATIVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XIII.
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The question arising-" How is the existence of the dividualities proved ? "- the following answor is given :
TEXT (713). "INASMUOH AS IT IS ON THE STRENGTH OF THESE THAT MYSTIOS HAVE THE NOTIONS,-IN CONNECTION WITH THE ATOM AND OTHER ETERNAL SUBSTANCES, THAT THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT', THESE ARE REGARDED AS SUBSISTING IN EACH OF THESE
SUBSTANCES."—(713)
COMMENTARY.
It is found that poople like ourselves have, in regard to the Ox,-the notion of the Ox' as distinguished from the Horse', through the presence of a particular shape, qualities, action and constituents, these notions nppearing in the form respectively of the Ox, white, fast nuoving, fat-humped, with a large bell';-in the same mannor, in people different from 129, sieh as Mystics, there appears,-in regard to each of the eternal objects, Atams, Liberatod Souls and Libernted Minds,--the exclusive notion that this is different from that'; and also when the same object is seen at another time and place, there is recognition of it as 'this is the same '; of such notions there being no other basis,-that to which they are due is held to consist in the ultimate Specific Individualities, whose existence is inforred from the peculiar experience of the Mystics.-Each of these Individualities subsista in its own substratum, and their existence is proved by the direct perception of the Mystics.-(713)
Question-How is the existence of Universals (Genuses, Oommunities) proved ?
Answer:
TEXT (714). "SUCH UNIVERSALS (COMMUNITIES, GENUSES) AS BEING ', Cow' AND THE LIKE ARH VOUCHED FOR BY DIRECT PERCIPTION; AS THE NOTION OF BEING AND THE REST ARE FOUND TO APPEAR ONLY WHEN THE SENSE-ORGANS
ARE FUNCTIONING."-(714)
COMMENTARY.
It is a well-established principle that when one thing follows the presence and absence of another thing, the former proceeds from the latter ;--in regard to Substance and the rest, the appearance of the notion of Being' (Existence), etc. follows the presence and absence of the functioning of the Sense-organis;