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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DOOTRINE OF GOD.
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clusive', in reference to the same-God; as God also operates only intermittently over things which appear consecutively; and yet He is not controlled by an Intelligent Being; for if He were, then there would be no need to posit such In. telligent Controllers.-If the Reason be meant to be qualified by the qualifying phrase 'being insentient',-as has been actually done by Prashastamati,-even so the 'inconclusiveness' remains unavoidable; as the exclusion of the con. trary of the Probandum remains doubtful. That Reason alone can be regarded as logical which serves to exclude the Probans from the contrary of the Pro. baudum; that however which does not entirely set aside all doubt of the presence of the Probans in the contrary of the Probandum,-ever if put forward,-is as good as not there (i.e. ineffective). Further, even with the said qualification, the Reason remains open to the aforesaid defects of being unproven and the rest.-(83)
As regards the argument (put forward by the Theist under Text 51, above) that- At the beginning of Creation usage among men must bure been due to the teaching of other persons, eto, etc."-it is answered by the following Text:
TEXT (84) ACCORDING TO US, AT DISSOLUTION, PERSONS DO NOT CONTINUE TO
REMAIN WITH ALL CONSCIOUSNESS AND MEMORY COMPLETELY LOST; BECAUSE THEY ARE BORN IN ETFULGENT REGIONS, AND FROM THESE LATTER THEY ARE BORN AGAIN IN
THIS WORLD.-(84)
COMMENTARY
In Text (51) the Theist has used the qualifying phrase, when they become awakened to consciousness; but such a qualification is absurd. Because under our theory, it is not true that at Dissolution, there remain Persons with all consciousness and memory lost and with all organa enfeebled ; what happens is that they are born in Luminous Regions, in celestial bodies, endowed with superior forms of clear consciousness; those however who have still got to expiate their Karmic residue through the fruition of particularly sinful and other deeds become born in other material regions : so that even at the time of the future evolution of the world (following after Dissolution), those same persons fall down from the Luminous and other regions and become born in this world, without losing all consciousness and memory. Hence any such qualification as when they become subsequently awakened to consciousness' is absurd.
Further, the Reason put forward is also inconclusive, because its absence from the contrary of the Probandum is doubtful. And if all that is meant to be proved is the fact of being preceded by the teaching of other persons', -then the argument is 'Futile', as all parties are agreed that in the matter of usage, which is beginningless, dependence on mutual teaching is inevitable.--If then what is meant to be proved is the fact of its being