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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER IX.
TEXT (498).
"THE PERSON SECURING LIBERATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOUND TO BE ONE WHO HAS BEEN BOUND UP IN CHAINS, ETC.; ANY SUCH
ASSERTION THEREFORE AS THAT THE UNBOUND
PERSON BECOMES LIBERATED IS CONTRARY TO A WELL-PERCEIVED FACT."-(498)
COMMENTARY.
That the person who is liberated is the same that had been in bondage is a fact well recognised and seen in the world. The assertion therefore of the Liberation of the Person who has not been in Bondage is one that is annulled by popular notion and also by a perceptible fact.-(498)
The following Text points out that the said idea is annulled by Inference also
TEXT (499).
"BONDAGE AND LIBERATION' MUST BELONG TO THE SAME PERSON,BECAUSE THEY ARE OF THAT NATURE, LIKE BONDAGE AND
LIBERATION IN THE ORDINARY WORLD.-THUS EVERY
THING BECOMES THOROUGHLY WELL-ESTAB
LISHED."-(499)
COMMENTARY.
The argument may be thus formulated :-Bondage and Liberation must subsist in one and the same person,-like the Bondage and Liberation in the world, the Bondage' and 'Liberation' under dispute are Bondage and Liberation in the form of Attachment and Dissociation therefrom;this is a reason based upon the nature of things.
"Because they are of that nature;-i.e. because they are in the form of Bondage and Liberation, i.e. because they have the character of Bondage and Liberation.
4 Tau, these two-i.e. Bondage and Liberation.
Thus the single substratum in the shape of the Soul' being established, all the doctrines relating to the Relation between Actions and their Results and so forth become thoroughly established:-i.e. are beautifully proved: there being no room for the criticisms directed against them.-(499)
