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II ADHYÂYA, 3 PÂDA, 15.
deny that, on account of the non-difference (of the organs and the elements).
In what precedes we have said that the creation and the retractation of the elements take place in direct and reverse order ; further that the creation proceeds from the Self, and that the retractation terminates in the Self.-Now Sruti as well as Smriti enlightens us concerning the existence of the mind (manas) together with the senses, and of the intellect (buddhi); compare, for instance, the indicatory marks contained in the passage, Ka. Up. 1,3, 3.4,' Know the intellect to be the charioteer and the mind the reins; the senses they call the horses,' &c. And as the whole aggregate of beings avowedly springs from Brahman, we must assume that the mind, the intellect and the senses also originate from it and are again merged in it in due order, occupying a definite place among the things created and retracted. Moreover the Atharvana (Mundaka), in the chapter treating of the creation, mentions the organs between the Self and the elements, From him is born breath, mind and all organs of sense, ether, air, light, water and the earth the support of all'(II, 1, 3). And from this there results a break in the previously stated order of the creation and the retractation of the elements.
This we deny, on account of the non-difference (of the organs from the elements). If the organs themselves are of the nature of the elements, their origination and retractation are the same as those of the elements, and we therefore have not to look out in their case for a different order. And that the organs are of the nature of the elements, for that we have inferential marks, in passages such as the following, 'for mind, my child, consists of earth, breath of water, speech of fire' (Kh. Up. VI, 6, 5). That the organs (although in reality belonging to the elements) are sometimes mentioned separately from them, is to be understood in the same way as when the Parivrågakas (mendicant Brahmanas) are spoken of separately from the Brahmanas. And supposing even that the organs are not of the nature of the elements, still the order of the origin of the elements
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1890 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |