Book Title: Tattva Kaumudi
Author(s): Oriental Book Agency Poona
Publisher: Oriental Book Agency Poona

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________________ -XXi139] TRANSLATION (137) Objection :-"You say that the feeling is due to Union, etc. But no union between two disObjection :- . tinct things is possible, without some need. What is the need of the Union ? which again is not possible without the relation (between the two things) of the helper and helped. [How is this possible in accordance with your tenets, with regard to the union of the Spirit with the Evolute ?]" In reply, the author explains the 'help' or 'benefit which forms the basis of the need. Karikā XXI For the perception of Nature by the Spirit and for Reply:-The need the Isolation of the Spirit, there is union is that of final Emancipation of both, like that of the, halt and the blind; and from this union proceeds evolution. (138) In the term “ Pradhānasya" the genitive affix has the accusative force, the meaning being—"for the perception by Spirit of Nature, the source of all things, "-thus implying the fact of Nature being an object--something to be enjoyed. This enjoyabılity, however, is not possible without an enjoyer, whose existence thus becomes needed by Nature. (139) The author next explains the need of the Spirit (for Nature )—" For the Isolation of the The need Spirit "_The Spirit, while in union with the explained ' enjoyable' Nature, believes the three kınds of pain-the constituents of Nature to be his own; and from this ( self-imposed bond ) he seeks liberation, Isola. tion; this Isolation is dependent upon due discrimination bet. ween the Spirit and the three Attributes; thus dısarimination is not possible without the Nature ( and its evolutes in the shape of Buddhi and the rest, without which no knowledge

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