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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIII.
TEXTS (2083-2084).
THE SUBSISTENCE OF THE OBJECT IN THE Apprehended Aspect OF THE POTENOY ON THE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING COGNITION IS NOT REGARDED BY US TO BE REAL THAT IS WHY THE IDEA IS SUPPORTED.-THE FACT OF THE COGNITION BEING THE ONLY ENTITY HAS BEEN CLEARLY ESTABLISHED BY CLEVER WRITERS. WE ALSO HAVE TRODDEN THE SAME PATH FOR THE ASCERTAINMENT OF TRUTH.
(2083-2084)
COMMENTARY.
Shaltau anantarë jñāna';-the two Locative endings are not to be taken in co-ordination.
Immediately following Cognition',-in the form of the 'Alayavijñāna (Recumbent Cognition).
Potency', -of forming the basic cause of the said idea of the object.
Is not held to be real' because it is not possible for anything apart from Atoms, etc. to be the objective basis, -as has been established in detail. This has also been asserted by the Revered Teacher, in the following words :* The absolute denial of the objective basis may involve incompatibility with a fact of direct experience; and there may be incompatibility with the doctrine onunciated in the Sūtra'- There are four kinds of causal factors, basic, dominant, immediate antecedent and causal link' in order to show that there is no incompatibility, it has been explained what sort of Basic Cause is meant in this Sutra and also in ordinary experience. But all this has been done on the plane of Illusion', not of Reality; as in reality all Cognitions are entirely devoid of objective basis.
End of Chapter on the External World.