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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER VIII.
TEXTS (435-436).
OUR ANSWER TO THE ABOVE IS AS FOLLOWS STAERE CAN BE NO MEITUAL HELP IN THE CASE OF THINGS APPEARING AT THE INITIAL STAGE'; THEY BECOME AUXILIARIES ONLY BY VIRTUE OF HAVING THE SAME EFFECTIVE ACTION. EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO HELP KENDERED TO ONE ANOTHER, THESE ARE NOT ENTIRELY undifferentiated; BECAUSE WHEN THEY ARE TAEMSELVES PRODUCED OUT OF THEIR OWN CONSTITUENT CAUSE, THEY BECOME PRODUCTIVE OF THEIR OWN SEVERAL
DISTINCT SERIES - (435-436)
COMMENTARY.
The effect is producer only from a cause that is efficient; and yet auxiliaries are not entirely useless. Because the Auxiliary is of two kinds(1) thnt which serves the same purpose, and (2) that which rouders mutual help ;- in the case of the effect appearing immediately, the auxiliary can be of the former kind only, not of the latter kind; because at one and the same moment one could not prociuice any peculiarity in the other, as it remains impartite (undifferentiated) ;-in the case of the remoter effect, however, the auxiliary is of that kind where there is mutual help ; as the qualified succoeding moment is produced mutually out of both, and the remoto effect is produced by mutual help in reference to its own 'series. Thus then, as regards those that appeared at the initial stage, there can be no differentiation from one another; and yet there can be nothing incongruoug in their rendering mutual help ; inasmuch as they serve the same purpose. But they are not undifferentiated in regard to the producing of the imme. diately following particular moment'; as the entire series of the succeeding effects is produced out of its own preceding 'causal ideas', and each member of this series is equally efficient in producing the said effects. These 'Causal Ideas are produced from their own Causal Ideas', these again from other
Causal Ideas of their own; and thus there is an endless series of causes. -Even if there is an Infinite Regress, that is nothing undesirable. Even though each member of the sories is efficient, yet the others are not useless; as they also have been produced as so efficient, through the potency of their own causes. Nor is it possible for them to have a separate existence, as there is no cause for it. Nor can it come later on, as all things are momentary,
They become productive of their own several distinct series that is, they are capable of producing the set appearing at the second moment.The term their own constituent cause should be understood to have been addel for the purpose of procluding the usefulness of an auxiliary that appears at the initial stage. And it is not possible for any effect to be pro. duced ontirely from its own constituent cause, as everything becomes possible with the help of attending circumstances. This has been thus declared
