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reply, that the seed ( i.e. the capacity ) of them (i.e. of time etc.) too is present here. Then it might be objected that the seed in question will be serving no useful purpose; to this we reply that it will be assisting the nature' in question.
सामग्याः कार्यहेतुत्वं तदन्याभावतोऽपि हि । aghraifela od rorelai fazira: 1162ll . sāmagryāḥ käryahetutvai tadanyabhāvato’pi hi /
tadabhāvād iti jñcram kālādinām niyogataḥ 118211 An effect is said to be the product of an aggregate (called 'causal aggregate 'precisely on the ground that this effect fails to come into existence when this aggragate lacks even a factor other than the cause proper (to say nothing of the case when it lacks the cause proper itself); in the case under consideration time etc. likewise prove to be the indispensable members of the concerned causal aggregate.
एतच्चान्यत्र महता प्रपञ्चेन निरूपितम् । नेह प्रतन्यतेऽत्यन्तं लेशतस्तूक्तमेव हि ॥८३॥ 'elac cânyatra mahalā prapañcena nirūpitam / neha pratanyale'lyantar leśatas tüktam eva hi //83||
We have elsewhere considered this question in great details and (that is why we remain from dilating upon it just now; as for a brief presentation of our case that has already been made.
कृतमत्र प्रसंगेन प्रकृतं प्रस्तुमोऽधुना । नाध्यात्मयोगभेदत्वादावर्तेप्वपरेप्वपि ॥८४॥ तीवपापाभिभूतत्वाज्ञानालोचनवर्जिताः । सद्वत्मवितरन्येषु न सत्वा गहनान्धवत् ॥८५।।
krtam atra prasangena prakslaṁ prastumo'dhuna / nādhyātmayogabhedalvād āvarteșu apareșu opi (18411 tiurapapābhibhūtatvāj jñānālocanavarjitāḥ /
sadvarımāvataranty eșu na saliva gahanāndhavat 1/8511 Enough of digression, let us now. resume our proper topic. In the pudgalāvartas earlier than the last one people lacking knowledge that is to act as eyes like blind persons trapped in a dense forest--fail to get at the proper path ; this happens on account of these people not bejpg in possession of adhyālma-yoga and their being under the sway of terrible sins.