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DOCTRINE OF 'GOD'.
89
TEXT (SO).
IF THE CHARACTER OF BEING PRODUCED BY AN INTELLIGENT CAUSE IS MEANT TO BE PROVED ONLY IN A GENERAL FORM, THEN WE HAVE NO DISPUTE WITH YOU AS ALL DIVERSITY IS
DUE TO ACTIONS.-(80)
COMMENTARY.
If it is as you now explain, then your argument is open to the objection of being futile-seeking to prove what is already admitted by all parties.*How so? "-Because all diversity, i.e. the diverse character of the world that exists,- is due to Actions,-i.e. brought about by common and uncommon, good and bad, deeds. Hence men performing the good and bad actions, who are all intelligent beings, become the cause of all this. And in this form we also accept the general proposition that. Things are produced by Intelligent Causes') so your argument becomes futile'.-(80)
If (in order to avoid this) it be held that the proposition sought to be proved is in a particular (not the General) form”,-then the answer is as given in the following Text:
TEXT (81).
IF WHAT YOU SEEK TO PROVE IS THE FACT THAT THE WORLD IS CREATED BY A CAUSE WHO IS ONE AND WHOSE CONSCIOUSNESS IS ETERNAL,
-THEN THERE IS ABSENCE OF THE PROBANDUM (IN THE INSTANCE); AND IT IS INCONCLUSIVE' ALSO, SINCE SUCH THINGS AS THE HOUSE AND THE LIKE ARE
FOUND TO BE MADE BY SEVERAL MAKERS.-(81)
COMMENTARY.
Though this has been already explained under Text 73 above, yet it is asserted again with a view to clinching the argument. The compound
Nityaikabuddhipūrvatvam. may be taken to mean either produced by one who is eternal and has a single Consciousness', or produced by one whose Consciousness is eternal and one'.- Absence of the Probandum ;-i.e. in what has been cited as the Corroborative Instance per similarity also
inconclusiveness',-i.e, of the Probans-(this has to be supplied). -"How?" -The answer is-Since such things as the House, etc. etc.—(81)
It has been asserted (by the Theist, above, under Text 49) that "The material Cause of the Tree and other things is controlled by an Intelligent Being, etc. etc."
The answer to these arguments is given in the following Test :
| SR No. | 007608 |
| Book Title | Tattva Sangraha Vol 1 |
| 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 |