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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXII.
TEXT (1890).
NOT HAVING ANY REAL EXTERNAL FORM, THEY FIGURE IN COGNITIONS ONLY THROUGH THE FRUITION OF DISPOSITIONS ; JUST AS DURING
DREAMS; THEY DO NOT APPEAR ANY.
WHERE ELSE.-(1890)
COMMENTARY.
'Anyehere else ',-i.e. apart from Cognition.—(1890)
Question :-"How then is it that people and the scriptures speak of the Earth and other Elemental Substances ?”
Answer :
TEXT (1891).
ALL THESE FOUR PRIMARY ELEMENTAL SUBSTANCES ARE ASSUMED ON THE BASIS OF WHAT APPEARS IN COGNITION, JUST LIKE DREAMS AND ILLUSIONS. AND THEY HAVE NO
REAL EXISTENCE.—(1891)
COMMENTARY.
Question :-" If the elemental substances do not exist, then what is the basis of the Cognition (of these) ?”
Answer :
TEXT (1892).
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT WHAT IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE COGNITION SHOULD FIGURE IN IT; IT IS ONLY A PREVIOUS COGNITION ENVISAGING THE SUBSTANCES THAT COULD
PRODUCE ANOTHER SUCH COGNITION.-(1892)
COMMENTARY. Tadanyasya'-something different from the Cognition, in the shape of the four elemental substances. (1892)
It has thus been proved that the first Cognition after birth cannot proceed from any material substance. The author now proceeds to demolish the view that it is produced only by another Cognition (occurring in a different Chain the fifth alternative put forward under Text 1880) :
