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TEXT (2188).
* THE OPPONENT MAY ARGUE AS FOLLOWS-HAVING BECOME EMBEL LISHED IN ONE SUBSTRATUM, THE AUDITORY ORGAN SHOULD BRING ABOUT THE COGNITION OF THE WORD-SOUND IN ALL BODIES,- ACCORDING TO ONE WHO HOLDS THE VIEW THAT THE AUDITORY ORGAN IS ONE ONLY (FOR ALL)."
[Shlokavārtika-ETERNALITY OF WORDS
71-73].—(2188)
COMMENTARY.
The Auditory Organ being one only, it cannot have the two mutually contradictory characters of being embellished and being not-embellished; hence when there would be embellishment in one, the organ being the same in all bodies, it would become embellished in all bodies ; hence the Sound should be heard by all, even by the deaf;—for one who holds the view that the Organ is one only, for all. And in that case, there could be no deafness at all.-(2188)
The answer to the above objection (provided by the Mimāmsaka) is as follows:
TEXT (2189).
" THE APPEARANCE OF THE COGNITION (OF SOUND) IS HELD TO TAKE PLACE IN THE BODIES OF PERSONS; CONSEQUENTLY, BY REASON OF THE PRINCIPAL FACTOR (BODIES) OCCUPYING DIFFERENT PLACES, THE EMBELLISHMENT OF THE AUDITORY ORGAN IS INEFFICIENT TO THAT EXTENT.”
[Shlokavārtika-ETERNALITY OF
WORDS, 72-73).—(2189)
COMMENTARY.
Though Persons in the shape of Souls-aro all-pervading, yet the view of the Mimämsakas is that Cognitions appear only in the bodies that are adopted by the Souls by virtue of their merit and demerit. Hence as this principal factor, in the shape of the bodies, would be occupying different
