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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER VII.
TEXTS (191.192). IF (BY THE ARGUMENT SET FORTE UNDER Text 178), IT IS SOUGHT TO BE PROVED THAT DESIRE AND THE REST MUST SUBSIST somewhere,
-AND TIAT THE CAUSE ONLY CAN BE SUCH A SUBSTRATUM, -YOU SEEK TO PROVE WHAT IS ALREADY ACCEPTED BY US. IF HOWEVER IT IS THE RECEPTACLE (OR CONTAINER) THAT IS MEANT BY YOU TO BE THE 'SUBSTRATOM (OF DESIRE, ETC.), -THEN ALSO THE ASSUMING OF A RECEPTACLE' FOR WHAT TS IMMOBILE IS
ABSOLUTELY USELESS.-(191-192)
COMMENTARY It has been argued (under Text 178, above) that “Desire, etc, must subsist somewhere"; if, by this, all that is meant to be proved is that only the Canse is the substratum of Desire, etc., then the effort is futile ; because we also do not regard Desire, etc. to be without cause; as is clear from our declaration that the mind and the mental phenomena are brought about by four etc.,
Parikalpyatê -asserted, meant.
If the substratum. you seek to prove is in the form of a container (Receptacle), then what is asserted being annulled by Inference, there can be no invariable concomitance between that and the Probans put for; ward.—This is what is shown by the words- If however it is the Receptarle, etc., i.e. the receptacle of the Desire, etc. It might be possible to postulate such # Roceptacle for things with material forms, which are capable of moving about,- for whom the "Receptacle' would save them from falling down; those things however which, like Pleasure and the rest, are immobile (and immaterial) can never fall down, and under the circumstances, what would any such thing as the 'Soul'do for them, whereby it would be their receptacle? (191-192)
Objection-" When the Jujube-fruit and other things are placed in such receptacles as the jar and the like-even though these latter do not do anything for the fruits, yet they serve as their receptacle (container); in the same manner the Soul would be the receptacle of Pleasure, etc."
The answer to this is provided in the following Text:
TEXT (193)
THE PIT AND OTHER THINGS CAN BE THE RECEPTACLE OF THE JUJUBE FRUIT AND OTHER THINGS, BECAUSE THEY SERVE TO OBSTRUCT THEIR MOVEMENT, OR BECAUSE THEY BRING ABOUT
SPECIFIC CHANGES.-(193)
COMMENTARY Because they serve to obstruct their movement '--this is in accordance with the view that things are not momentary ;-'because they bring about
