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EXAMINATION OF THE DOOTRINE OF THE PERMANENCE OF THINGS, 251
TEXT (396).
** EVEN OF THE ETERNAL THING, THERE ARE CERTAIN AUXILIARIES,-ON ACCOUNT OF WHOSE HELP, THE FORMER
BRINGS ABOUT THE LARGE NUMBER OF ITS
EFFECTS, IN SUCCESSION "-(396)
COMMENTARY.
* Even though the Permanent Entity is always there, yet its auxiliaries come up to it only in succession; hence on account of these latter, the Per. manent Entity will naturally produce its effects only in succession":-(396)
The following Treat answers this arguments
TEXTS (397-399).
THIS IS ALL VERY WELL ; BUT WHEN THOSE OTHER THINGS BECOME ITS
AUXILIARIES', IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF THE CAUSAL EFFICIENCY (OF THE PERMANENT THING) ? OR BECAUSE THEY ALSO SERVE THE SAME PURPOSE ?-IF THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF THE CAUSAL EFFICIENCY (OF THE PERMANENT THING),THEN THIS THING ITSELP WOULD BE PRODUCED BY THEM; AND YET THIS IS INCAPABLE OF BEING PRODUCED, AS IT IS ALWAYS THERE (BEING PERMANENT), OR, IF THE VERY FORM OF THE PERMANENT THING WERE HELD TO BE PRODUCED (BY THE AUXILIARIES), THEN ITS ETERNALITY (PERMANENCE) DISAPPEARS. IF THE
PECULIARITY' (PRODUCED IN THE PERMANENT THING) BE REGARDED AS SOMETHING DISTINCT FROM THE THING ITSELF, THEN, HOW CAN THIS (THING) BE REGARDED
AS THE CAUSE'-(397-399)
COMMENTARY.
As a matter of fact, it is not possible for the Permanent Thing to have any auxiliary. Because (a) would that be an auxiliary' by virtue of creating peculiar conditions in the thing as the Earth, Water and other things become auxiliaries of the seed through producing in it such conditions as swelling and the like? Or (6) would it by virtue of their serving the same purpose as the thing—as Colour etc. become auxiliaries to the Eye in producing the visual perception of Colour, by mere appearance !--The former view cannot be maintained ; because the peculiar condition that is produced in the Thing, by the auxiliary-would that condition be non-different or different from the form of the thing itself or would it be neither different nor non-different? Or would it be both different and non-different ?-as
