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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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXI.
TEXTS (1810-1815). Firstly, THE ACTIVITY IN QUESTION CONSISTS IN THE CAPACITY TO THROW
OUT RESULTS' AND IS CAPABLE OF BEING SPOKEN OT; HOW CAN IT BE SAID TO HAVE AN IMAGINARY EXISTENCE, WHEN THE CAPACITY OF THINGS IS AN ENTITY 1-Secondly, THE FORM THAT IS ADMITTED TO BE BRINGING ABOUT SUCH EFFECTS As burning, cooling AND THE LIKE, IS THIS SAME FORM HELD TO BE IN THE PAST ', PRESENT' AND FUTURE' STATES ?-IF IT IS THE SAME, HOW CAN activity, inactivity AND cessation of activity BELONG TO THE ENTITY THAT HAS A SINGLE PORM -HOW CAN THESE MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY MODES BE PRESENT IN WHAT IS ONLY one and undifferentiated ? IF IT IS ARGUED THAT—" BECAUSE IT ABANDONS ONE STATE' AND THEN TAKES UP ANOTHER, THAT ENTITY CANNOT BE UNDIFFARENTIATED, WHICH PASSES THROUGH THE STATES", THEN THE QUESTION ARISES ARE THESE STATES' DIFFERENT FROM THE ENTITY ?-[THE OTHER PARTY ANSWERS)—"No; AS IN THAT CASE, THE ENTITY WOULD NOT BE AN ACTIVE AGENT. BECAUSE IT IS ONLY THROUGH THE EXISTENCE OF THE STATES THAT THE EXISTENCE OF THE EFFECTS IS APPREHENDED."-(1810-1815)
COMMENTARY.
You (Sahantabhadra) have explained that the capacity of entities to throw up their effects is what is meant by Activity':-now, how can this capacity to throw up effects have a merely imaginary existence! That is, it can never be so. Consequently the distinction of the states' based there. upon should also be accepted as real.
Further, the Form of Fire is found to be one that is capable of such efficient actions as those of Burning, Cooking, etc. is this the same that continues in the Past' and other states? Or is it different? If it remains the same, then how can such contradictory properties as activity, 'innotivity' and cessation from activity' belong to the said form which is one and the same, totally undifferentiated ?-And it is only through the presence of these properties that the Entity could have such states as the
Future', Present' and 'Past respectively. If, even in the presence of contradictory properties, the entity remained the same, then all ideas of Difference would become uprooted, and the entire universe would have to be regarded as one only. And such one-ness would mean that all things should be produced together at one and the same time.
It might be argued that" By virtue of the variations undergone in the process of abandoning one state and taking up another, the Entity in the three states is not entirely undifferentiated".
But even so, are these states different or non-different (from the Entity)? This has got to be explained.
Says the other Party-"They are not different i.e. they do not differ from the Entities.—'Why?'-Because, in that case the Entity could not be