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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PERMANENCE OF THINGS. 273
the doctrine of Perpetual Flux' be discarded on the strength of the said * Recognition which is illusory in its very source 1-(451)
The following Texts urge-from Kumärila's standpoint [vide Shloka vārtika -Perception, Shlo. 234]the argument that "Recognition does not appre. hend what has been already apprehended":
TEXTS (452-453).
"As A MATTER OF FACT, the existence of the thing at the present time (OF RECOGNITION) HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED UNDER THE PREVIOUS
COGNITION ; THIS IS A PECULIAR FEATURE IN RECOGNITION, WHICH IS NOT PRESENT IN REMEMBRANCE. REMEMBRANCE IS IN THE FORM OF THAT AND APPERTAINS ONLY TO THAT WHICH HAS BEEN ALREADY OOONISED BEFORE : RECOGNITION HOWEVER IS IN THE FORM THIS IS THAT SAME, WHICH IS SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE PRE
VIOUS COGNITION)."-(452-453)
COMMENTARY.
Kumarila has argued as follows:-" The previous Cognition has not apprehended the existence of the Thing at the present time (of Recognition): as it could not appear in the form this is the same as that'; hence there is a difference between Recognition and Remembrance." How?"-Remem. brance always appears in the form of 'That which takes in only that much of the Thing as has been cognised before ; while Rocognition takes in the idea of This also (being in the form This is the same as that), which is an additional feature of the thing concerned. To this extent, Recognition is something different from Remembrance. Thus Recognition acquires the character of a real "Means of Right Cognition', after having shaken off the Doubt and Mistake in regard to it.-(452-458)
Ho proceeds to show in what way it shakes off the Doubt and Mistake :
TEXT (454) "INASMUCH AS THERE IS NO DOUBT OR MISTAKE IN REGARD TO WHAT IS COGNISED (BY RECOGNITION), -RECOGNITION ACQUIRES THE CHARACTER OF THE MEANS OF RIGHT COGNITION AFTER
HAVING SET ASIDE BOTH."-(454)
COMMENTARY Inasuch as Doubt and Mistake do not exist at all in regard to the thing recognised, having been dispelled, like cold in a place surrounded by a large mass of flaming fire.-(454)
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