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RELATION BETWEEN ACTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS.
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TEXTS (480-481). "AS A MATTER OF FACT, UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF No-Soot', THE doer OF AN ACT WOULD KNOW, BEFOREILAND, THAT, AS I AM GOING TO PERISH IMMEDIATELY, THERE WOULD BE NO RESULT FROM THIS ACT, OR IT WOULD COME TO SOME ONE OTHER THAN MYSELF AND KNOWING THIS, THE INTELLIGENT MAN WOULD NOT UNDERTAKE THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY ACT, GOOD OR BAD, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING ITS RISULT; AS FOR THE RESULT, IT WOULD BE STILL FURTHER
REMOVED."—(480-481)
COMMENTARY,
Under the Doctrine of Porpetual Flux, it would be held that all things are devoid of Soul'; as all things being dependent upon their cause (in the Causal Chain '), nothing can be independent (self-sufficient). Under the circumstances, the intelligent agent must know,-be conscious of the fact, -"what?"-that after my destruction, the result could not acorte to me, as I would not be there at the time that the Result comes about : even if the Result comes about, it would come to a Moment other than myself'. Knowing this, the intolligent person would not undertake the act at all; how thon could there be any result which can follow only from an act preceded by the activity (of an active agent)? Such Result would bo 'still further removod', as absolutely impossible.-(480-481)
It has thus been proved that there can be no relation between Action and its Result; the Author next proceeds to show,-again from Kumārila's standpoint,--that the Relation of Cause and Effect is not possible under the doctrine of Perpetual Flux' :
TEXT (482).
" NEITHER THE FUTURE NOR THE PAST ENTITY CAN BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE EFFECT ; AS FOR THE PRESENT ONE, THAT ALSO
DOES NOT CONTINUE TO EXIST TILL THAT TIMH." -(482)
COMMENTARY.
Tint that time' ;i.e. during the time that it would come into existence and produce the effect, it does not continue to exist, being momentary(482)
The following Text adduces arguments in support of each of the assertions made in the preceding Text regarding the Future. etc. :
