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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EXAMINATION OF THE DOOTRINE OF TRAIKALYA
883
TEXT (1848).
IN THE CASE OF THE COGNITIONS OF ETERNAL THINGS ', GOD' AND SO FORTH, THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE BACKGROUND; AS WORDS AND
NAMES ARE DEVOID OF THE FORMS OF THOSE --(1848)
COMMENTARY.
And so forth', includes such other assumed things as Primordial Matter, Time, etc.
No such idea should be entertained as that these cognitions have their objective background in the words; this is what is meant by the words • As Words and Names, etc. etc.' -What is meant is that the form of God such as Eternality, Being the Cause of all things and so forth, that is envisaged in the said cognitions,—of that form, the Word or the Name is entirely devoid,—which Word or Name does not undergo any modification.
The term 'adi' in 'shabdanāmādi', is meant to include the contingent cause (of Cognition), postulated by other people, in the shape of the Reflected Image of things.-(1848)
Question: "If then there is Cognition without object also, then how is it called 'Cognition'? Because . Cognition stands for that which apprehende things; and when there is nothing to be apprehended, how could the cognition be there?"
Answer :
TEXT (1849).
IT IS CALLED COGNITION' ONLY BY VIRTUE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS'; AND THIS CONSCIOUSNESS' ALSO CONSISTS IN THE COGNITION BEING not-darle WHICH IS DEDUCED FROM ITS being
luminous.-(1849)
COMMENTARY.
* The presence of the nature of Consciousness also is not possible without cognition " ;-in answer to this it is added- And this Consciousness, etc. etc.'--'sa'stands for the presence of the nature of Consciousness ;-asya' i.e. of the Cognition.-"What is it?"-It consists in the Cognition being not-darle; only, on account of there being nothing else to be illumined by it, and also of the absence of any other source of illumination, the Cognition is of the nature of Light itself, like the Light diffused in the atmosphere ; and it is by virtue of this luminosity that it is called 'Cognition':-(1849)
"How does the past act bring about its fruit" ?
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