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(61) Under the first three of these theories, the exis
tence of Nature ( Primordial Root-Matter ) The impossibility cannot be proved. As a matter of fact, the of the existence of Nature being world is found to consist of Sound and other proved in accord. Elements which are only different forms and ance with the first three views modifications of Pleasure, Pain, and Delu
sion; and it is this fact which goes to prove that the cause of the world is the Primordial Matter ( Nature ) whose 'primordiality' must consist in its being of the nature of the three Attributes, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas (which alone are the essence of Pleasure, Pain and Delusion ). Such being the case, if the existent' effect were the product of the ' non-existent' cause ( the first view above ).-then, how could the non-existent Cause which must be characterless, be of the nature of Sound and other Elements consisting of Pleasure, Pain and Delusion? As, certainly the non-existent can never be of the nature of the existent - If (as under the second view) the entire phenomenon of Sound and the rest were the illusory evolution out of a single 'existent Being.--then also it cannot be proved that the 'existent effect emanates from the existent cause '; and the second view is open to the further objection that the One Being could never constitute what is phenomenal; in fact the conception of the nonphenomenal as constituting the phenomenal must be wrong. Even under the theory of Kaņāda and Gautama,-that 'the nonexistent effect is born out of the existent cause,'-as there could be no identity between the 'existent' and the 'non-existent,' the effect could not be regarded as constituted entirely by (being of the same nature as) the cause; and hence, under this theory also, there could be no proof for the existence of Pri. mordial Matter (Nature).
(62) Hence, in order to establish the existence of Primordial Matter (Nature), the author at the outset declares that the effect is 'existent', (even before the causal operation).
