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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXI.
TEXTS (1844-1845). THAT FORM WHICH, HAVING COME INTO EXISTENCE, HAS CEASED TO EXIST,
HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS 'PAST'; AND THAT WHICH IS TO COME WHEN THE CAUSAL FACTORS ARE COMPLETE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS 'FUTURE'. IF THE 'EXISTENCE OF THIS WERE INSISTED UPON, THEN THEY MUST BE REGARDED AS PRESENT'; THIS IS WHAT HAS BEEN JUST PROVED; AS THE ONLY CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PRESENT' IS THAT IT SHOULD BE existent.
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COMMENTARY. This is easily understood.-(1844-1845)
Question :-"How is it that the presence of Form, Sensation and the rest has been attributed to these ?"
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TEXT (1846). WHEN FORM, ETC. ARE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAST AND FUTURE THINGS, IT IS THROUGH imposing UPON THEM THEIR PAST AND FUTURE
CONDITIONS ; AND NOT IN REALITY.-(1846)
COMMENTARY. . Täm dashâm'-that condition.-(1846)
Question :-"How is it then that Cognition has been declared to rest in two substrates ? ” Answer:
TEXT (1847). WHEN THE SEER OF TRUTH DECLARED THAT COGNITION PROCEEDS FROM TWO CAUSES, THIS TEACHING WAS IN VIEW OF THE
COGNITION WITH AN OBJECT.—(1847)
COMMENTARY. Cognition is of two kinds-with object (objective) and without object (purely subjective). It is in reference to the Cognition with Object that Cognition has been taught by the Blessed Lord, as being based upon two substrates.-(1847)
Question :-"How is it known that there is Oognition without Object also ?"
Answer:
