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TATTYASANGRAHA: CHAPTER IX.
it is well known among peoplo that the result of the good or bad action is experienced by that same man who did the act; when a good or bad act has been done by Deradata, the result of that act-agreeable or disagrecable,is not experienced by Yajnadatta. Nor is such an idea countenanced in the scriptures, where we read-When the action has been done by this person, who else will experience its results?-Such a notion is contrary to the doctrine of the Perpetual Flux of things; as under that doctrine there cannot be any one entity who would do the act and experience its result; so that the said doctrine is clearly open to the criticism that it involves the anomaly of the disappearance of the action done by the Person himself and the befalling upon him of the effect of what was not done by him'.-(476)
The following Text explains how the doctrine is open to this criticism:
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TEXTS (477-479).
"IN THE CASE OF ACTIVE PEOPLE, THAT MOMENT' (MOMENTARY THING) WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THE doer oF THE ACT, DOES NOT CONTINUE TO EXIST AT THE TIME OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE RESULT OF THAT ACT-AND THE ACT WAS NOT DONE BY THAT MOMENT' WHICH IS SPOKEN OF AS THE experiencer OF THE RESULT AT THE TIME OF ITS APPEARANCE; AS IT DID NOT EXIST AT THAT TIME,-THUS, INASMUCH AS NO SINGLE ENTITY IS ADMITTED AS BEING THE doer OF THE ACT AND THE experiencer OF ITS RESULTS, THE POSITION THUS CLEARLY
IS THAT THE ACT IS LOST FOR THE MAN RESULTS BEFALL ONE WHO DID NOT DO IT, ANOMALOUS." (477-479)
WHO DID IT AND ITS WHICH IS EXTREMELY
COMMENTARY.
'Does not continue to exist as it is destroyed immediately on its coming into existence.
Inasmuch as no single entity, clc.;-i.e. since the Act and its Result have not been taken up by one and the same entity. There is loss of the Act' for the door of the net, as he does not come by the result; and there is befalling of what he did not do' on the man who did not do the act.
Extremely anomalous-i.e. no such situation is found either among people or mentioned in the scriptures.-(477-479)
The anomaly of the loss of what is done and the befalling of what is not done has been pointed out, on the acceptance of the view that activity' is possible; the Opponent next proceeds to show-from Kumarila's standpoint, that activity itself is not possible (under the Doctrine of Perpetual Flux'):
