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 XXIII.
TEXT (2011).
THERE CAN BE NO SUCH COMPLAINT AS-" WHOSE APPREHENSION WOULD IT BE?”-IN FACT, APPREHENSION IS THE VERY NATURE OF THE COGNITION; JUST AS SATISFACTION IS OF
Pleasure.—(2011)
COMMENTARY.
It is the nature or essence of the Cognition itself that is called 'appre. hension', -by reason of its being of the nature of Light ;-just as-Satisfaction' is of Pleasure ; when one speaks of the satisfaction of Pleasure, the mere fact of the two being mentioned separately does not make the Satisfaction something different from Pleasure.-Similarly, though there are such expressions as apprehension of Blue', 'apprchonsion of Yellow and so forth, where the two appear to be different, yet, it is the very nature of the Cognition that it appears in the form of Blue, etc., and honen it is spoken of in the said manner; and the reason for this lies in the fact that Cognition is by its nature self-cognisant.-(2011)
. Question:-“What is this Self-cognition that is spoken of ?" Answers
TEXT (2012). IT MEANS THAT FOR THE COGNITION OF ITS OWN FORM, THE COGNITION DOES NOT NEED ANY OTHER THING; AND YET IT IS NOT UNCOGNISED ;THIS IS WHAT IS MEANT BY
SELF-COGNITION ':-(2012)
COMMENTARY.
The following Text raises an objection to the statement just madefrom the view-point of Kumärila:
TEXT (2013).
“WHILE FUNCTIONING TOWARDS THE APPREHENDING OF THE OBJECT, THE COGNITION DOES NOT TOUCH ITSELF ; HENCE, EVEN THOUGH IT IS ILLUMINATIVE, IT NEEDS SOMETHING ELSE FOR ITS OWN APPREHENSION."-[Shlokavārtika
Shünyavāda, 184).—-(2013)
COMMENTARY.
This is how Kumārila argues-“Though Cognition is of the nature of Light, yet for its own manifestation, it needs something else ; and it does not