Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

SR No.: 007609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 887
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 84 MB

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TATTVASAÑGRAHA: CHAPTER XX.
TEXTS (1724-1725).
"THOUGX THE ENTITY MAY BE OF ONE NATURE ONLY, YET IT CAN HAVE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES; THERE COULD BE NO INCONGRUITY IN THE PRESENCE OF DIFFERENT STATES (OF THE SAME THING); WHICH IS FOUND, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE CASE OF THE POTENCIES OF THE ACTIVE AGENCIES ;-NOR CAN THERE BE ANY INCONGRUITY IN WHAT IS ACTUALLY SEEN; AND IT IS ACTUALLY SEEN THAT EVEN THOUGH THE GENERAL AND THE PARTICULAR ARE ASPECTS OF ONE AND THE SAME THING, YET IN ACTUAL PRACTICAL LIFE THERE IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM.”
(1724-1725)
COMMENTARY.
Surnali has offered the following explanation in connection with the objection urged against the Jaina doctrine :-"It has been urged that if the General and the Particular were not regarded as different, there would be confusion.-But this does not affect the case at all. Though, by reason of their being of the same nature there may be confusion, there can be difference in their properties,As is found to be the case with the potencies of Active Agencies. For instance, there are such expressions as 'Balähako vidyotate',
The Cloud flashes' (where the Cloud appears as the active Agent), and . Balähakādvidyotate', 'flashes from the Clouds' (where the Cloud appears as the Source, the Ablative); in such cases we find the potencies of the active agencies varying through the diversity of their effects ; even though they being all of the nature of substance there is a certain amount of confusion. If this is not admitted, that would be quite contrary to common experience as well as scientific (Grammatical) principles.
Then again, there can be no incongruity urged against what is actually seen. For instance, in the case of the General and the Particular, though they are aspects of one and the same thing, and are quite distinct and never coniounded, yet, all practical business is actually found to be carried on on the basis of their difference.-The compound 'bhedalokayatra' is to be ex. pounded as Practical business on the basis of difference ; and this is carried on, though the entity is one only embracing both the aspects.-The argument may be formulated as follows:- When any one thing is treated as diverse, it is on the basis of the diversity of its properties,-as in the case of the Potencies of active agencies the idea of the General and Particular being aspects of one and the same thing involves treatment of the thing as diverse ; --this is a Reason based upon the nature of things.-(1724-1725)
The above argument is answered in the following