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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER VI.
through special cousas.-The Spider thus is not always of one and the same character; its efficiency also is only occasional and due to the force of its own causes. (168)
The following might be urged :-"The Spirit may not act through Compassion, or through Amusement; but somehow it acts unintentionally (automatically)".
The answer to this is given in the following Text :
TEXT (169). IF THE FUNCTIONING (OF THE SPIRIT) BE SOMEHOW' (UNINTENTIONAL)- THEN WHAT SORT OF 'INTELLIGENCE' IS HIS ?-SINCE EVEN THE FISHERMAN DOES NOT ACT WITHOUT THINKING
OVER THE EFFEOT OF HIS ACTION. (169)
COMMENTARY. How could such a Person be listened to by intelligent men,-being more ignorant and stupid than even such common people as the fisherman and the like.-' Buddhimatta' stands for intelligence. - Shanala' is the Jisherman.-(169)
This objection against the Spirit should be taken as rejecting all those creators -Shauri and the rest, who have been postulated by other people. This is what is shown in the following Text :
TEXT (170).
Shauri' (Visnu), THE SELF-BORN' (Brahma), AND OTHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ASSUMED TO BE THE CREATORS (OP THE WORLD)-ALL BECOME ACTUALLY BEJECTED BY THE ABOVE
REASONINGS.-(170)
COMMENTARY.
Shauri' is Vişnu; 'Self-born' is Brahma and others' is meant to include 'Intelligent Time, which also is postulated by some people.
[There is a lacuna in the Text here.]
End of the Chapter on Spirit' as the Creator.
