Alamban Pariksha

Author(s): Dinnaga, Dharmapala, N Aiyaswami Shastri
Publisher: Adyar Library

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DHARMAPĀLA'S COMMENTARY
63 yet the body of atoms does so. However, they become objects mutually unconnected.!6
“Like the senses ". Just as a sense-faculty, though it serves as a basis of the association of consciousness, never becomes its object; because it does not bear the image of the sensefaculty; so also atoms. What do not possess the image of consciousness are not considered to be its objects. Therefore it is said :
[25] “ That is the object " “The form of its own ” means the image of consciousness itself. “Consciousness grasps” means it determines. 17 .: How is it known that consciousness grasps only the form of its own ?
“Because it arises in that form." This refers to the mind, [the preceding moment of consciousness]. Consciousness arises in a form which resembles the mind. When there is a mutual correspondence or co-ordination (sārūpya) between the consciousness and the object-image, then we call it grasping of the object by consciousness. In fact, for you, there is no object grasped beyond consciousness. How could you, then, explain the causality of the object nonexistent apart from consciousness for rising up of its
16 According to Kāşmira Vaibhāşikas and Bhadanta Vasu. bandhu atoms never get combined, (na sprsanti), see. Additional Notes below.
17 Read in Sanskrit: Eqer Flare gayà i farafga faitza i
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