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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER V.
Or in the sense that sometimes it is produced from Sound, -as in the case of the expression annamayah panal' (Life is of the essence of food '), the affix mayat denotes cause the meaning being that Food is the cause of Life)?
The first alternative cannot be right; as the said inodification itself is not possible. Because when Brahman who is of the essence of Sound' takes the form of the Blue and other things, does It--or does it not -abandon its own pristine Sound-form? If the former alternative he accepted that It does abandon its pristine Sorind-form,-then there would be an end to the view that it is without beginning and end', that is, imperishable, indestructible; as there would be a destruction of the pristine form.-If the second alternative be accepted that It does not abandon its pristine form, then, at the time that Blue is cognised by the deaf person, he should have the perception of Sound also; as the cognition of Sound would be non-different from the cognition of Blue. Tliis argument may be formulated as follows:-When one thing is non-different from another,if one is cognised, the other becomes also cognised, us when the Blue is cognised, the essence of that same Blue becomes also cognised :-Sound is non-different from Blue; hence this is a reason based on the nature of things.-If it were not so, inasmuch as the conditions for better or worse would differ in the two (Sound and Blue), they could not be recogniseci as of the essence of the other. This would be an argument against the con. clusion (of the other party).-(129-131)
This same argument is set forth in greater detail, in the following Text:
TEXT (132)
[IT WOULD BE AS ASSERTED ABOVE) BECAUSE ALL THINGS (AOCORDING
TO YOU) EXIST PRIMARILY IN THE FORM OF SOUND; AND IF THE SOUND-FORM IS NOT ABANDONED, THERE CAN BE NO
MODIFICATION (EVOLUTION).-(132)
COMMENTARY
Yena' here stands for yasmāt, because, - you hold that primarily the World is of the nature of Sound.
The second line explains why it would be as asserted.-(132)
Question-"What if the World remains primarily of the essence of Bound?
The Answer is provided by the following Text:
