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objects is not admitted, there is no Recognition; e.g. there is no such recog. nition as that this Cognition of the Horse and the Chariot is the same as what was the Dognition of the Elephant';-and it has been already proved that all these Cognitions are without any real background; hence we are not neserting that here again. Thas tho assertion that there is no nonrecognition of it as Cognition so long as notice is not taken of the diversity among the objects" (Tect 248, above)—should be regarded as unproven (untrue).-(263)
Then again, if the Soul is held by you to be enternally of one and the Bame form, then such diverse states as 'Happiness and the like are not possible. If you do admit these diverse states, then the Soul cannot be eternally of one and the same form. As one and the same thing cannot have such contradictory characters as diversity and non-diversity.
This Objection las been songht to be answered by Kumarila ; and what has been said by him is now introduced in the following Text,-for the purpose of refuting it (below, under Text 268 ef. seq.) -
TEXTS (264-265).
*TRE PERMANENT SOUL HAVING BEEN ABSOLUTELY ESTABLISHED AS DAVOID OF DIVERSITY DUE TO THE DIVERSITY OF STATES, WHAT PEOPLE ASSUME TO BE THE STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS AND THE REST, EVEN WHEN UNDERGOING ALL THESE STATES, MY PERSON (SOUL) DOES NOT RENOUNCE HIS CHARACTER OF being sentient, being a substance, being an entity and so
forth." [Shokavārtika, page 695)—(265)
COMMENTARY. Undergoing '--passing through - Person-Soul. The term and &o forth' includes such generic characters as being lenouable, being rightly cognisable, being the active agent, and the like.—(265)
The following Text proceeds to show that there is no disappearance of the specific properties :
TEXT (266)
"EVEN ON THE APPEARANCE OF A NEW STATE, THE PRECEDING STATE
IS NOT ENTIRELY DESTROYED ; IT BECOMES MERGED INTO THE COMMON CHARACTER, IN ORDER TO HELP THE APPEARANCE
OF THE NEXT STATE." (Shlokavārtika, page 596]-(266)
COMMENTARY.
Preceding state -of happiness.
“If that is so, then why is not Unhappiness also not ielt during the state of Happiness!"
