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BOTH-GOD AND PRIMORDIAL MATTER,
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TEXTS (97-100).
THE THEISTIC Sinthya MAY ARGUE AS FOLLOWS:"IT IS A WELLESTABLISHED FACT THAT PRIMORDIAL MATTER IS TRIPLE IN ITS ESSENCE ;
-WHEN THE SUPREME LORD COMES INTO CONTACT WITH THE MANIFESTED Rajas-aspect (ENERGY), HE BECOMES THE CAUSE OF CREATION WHEN AGAIN, HE HAS RECOURSE TO THE MANIFESTED Sattva-aspect (HARMONY), THEN HE BECOMES THE CAUSE OF THE SUBSISTENCE OF THE WORLD - WHEN HE COMES INTO CONTACT WITH THE MANIFESTLY OPERATIVE T'amasaspect (INERTIA), THEN HE BRINGS ABOUT THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ENTIRE WORLD. THUS THE ATTRIBUTES OF HARMONY, ENERGY AND THE REST ARE HIS AUXILIARIES, AND THESE BECOME OPERATIVE ONLY CONSECUTIVELY; THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO absence of consecutiveness (1.E. SIMULTANEITY) OF PRODUCTS."
(97-100)
COMMENTARY.
"Even though these two Canses (Primordial Matter and God) are constantly present together, yet the various products will come into existence only consecutively, one after the other; because the three Attributes of Primordial Matter,-Sattva and the rest, are the auxiliaries of God; and as these Attributes function only consecutively, there is bound to be consecutive. ness in the Products also. For instance, when God becomes affected by the operative Rajas-attribute, He becomes the Creator of creatures, as the Rajas. attribute is conducive to production ;-when however, He has recourse to the operative Saltva-attribute, then He becomes the Cause of the continued existence of the worlds, because the Satta-attribute is conducive to subsistence; wlien He comes into contact with the operative Tumas-attribute, then He brings about the dissolution-destruction of the entire World; as the Tamas-attribule is conducive to mergence (dissolution). --This process has been thus described (by Bāņa-Bhatta in the opening verse of his Kadambari):- He who has recourse to Rajas at the birth of creatures, to Sallva during their existence, and to Tamas at their dissolution,—who is unborn, and controls the birth, existence and destruction, who consists of the Three Vedas, the very essence of the Three Attributes,-to Him obeisance !
* The particle * Kila' (in Toxt 99) is meant to indicate improbability (of any complete Dissolution)."-(97-100)
The answer to the above is provided in the following Text:
| 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 |