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

Page 64

DOCTRINE OF GOD
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and that is God.--Even so, Merit and the rest do not become useless in the producing of the World); because God is only the 'Efficient Cause' (Guide, Supervisor) (and Atoms and Merit, eto. would still be needed as the Con. stituent and Contributory Causes).
The following objection might be urged "Those Merit and Demerit that are held to subsist in the Soul or Spirit of Man) may be the required Operator; why should one assume a God?"
Answer-That cannot be right; the particular Spirit at that time of Creation) would be wholly unconscious-so long as his Body, Sense-organs and other aggregates of Causes and Effects are not produced, the Spirit remains unconscions, not perceiving even such Colour, etc. as are quite perceptible; under the circnmstances, how could it perceive Merit and Demerit, which are entirely imperceptible? To this end, there is the following declaration-'The ignorant Creature, not master of his own pleasure and pain, may go to Heaven or to the Nethermost Hole,-only as he is urged by God' [quoted in Nyāyavārtika 4. 1. 21, where the Tätparya speaks of it as * Smrti').-(46)
The Text proceeds to set forth two Reasons propounded by A viddha. karna (an ancient Naiyáyila) in proof of the existence of God :
TEXTS (47-48).
"(A) THAT WHICH IS CHARACTERISED BY A PECULIAR ARRANGEMENT OF ITS OWN COMPONENT PARTS IS SUBJECT TO A CAUSE THAT IS ENDOWED WITH INTELLIGENCE,- FOR INSTANCE, THE JAR AND OTHER OBJECTS. THE THING IN DISPUTE,-WHICH IS PERCEPTIBLE BY MEANS OF TWO SENSE-ORGANS AND ALSO IMPERCEPTIBLE, -MUST BE PRECEDED (AND PRODUCED) BY A CAUSE ENDOWED WITH INTELLIGENCE, -ATOMS SUPPLYING THE CORROBORATIVE INSTANCE' per Dis.
SIMILARITY"-(48)
COMMENTARY The argument has been thus formally stated :--"The thing under dispute, which is perceptible by means of two sense-organs or not porceptible at all, must be regarded as produced by an Intelligent Cause,--because it is characterised by a peculiar arrangement of its coroponent parts like the Jar, and unlike the Atoms (the Jar being the Corroborative Instance per Similarity, and the Atoms being so per Dissimilarity!"-Now in this formulated argument
- What is perceptible by means of two Sense-organs' stands for the three kinds of Substance, Earth, Water and Fire-which are perceptible by means of the two organs of Vision and of Touch, because they fulfil such conditions of perceptibility as being large, being composed of several substances, being coloured and so forth;-the imperceptible' Are Air and the rest, simply because the conditions of perceptibility are being large being cornposed