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TATTVASANGRAHA: OHAPTER IX.
TEXTS (509-510).
OUR EXPLANATION IS AS FOLLOWS THE EFFECT COMES INTO EXISTENCE AT THE SECOND MOMENT ;-The Causa HAD COME INTO EXISTENCE AT THE FIRST MOMENT; AND DURING THAT MOMENT IT IS NOT DESTROYED, BUT BEING momentary, IT DOES NOT EXIST AT THE MOMENT AT WHICH THE EFFECT IS THERE; EVEN IF IT WERE THERE, IT WOULD BE USELESS, AS THE EFFECT WILL HAVE ALREADY COME INTO
EXISTENCE.-(509-510)
COMMENTARY
Our view is that the efect comes out of the Cause while this latter is still undestroyed; and there is no possibility of the two being simultaneous; because what happens is that the Effect comes into existence at the second moment, through its dependence upon the Cause which has come into existence at the first moment and has not yet bocome destroyed; so that when the Effect comes into existence it does so from the Cause while it is still undestroyed; as it has not been destroyed at the first moment. And yet the Cause does not continue to exist at the moment that the Effect is in existence, as, being momentary, it cannot so continue to exist. Even if it were to continue, it would not have the nature of the Cause; because when the Effect has already come about, it would be absolutely useless.-(509-510)
The following Text shows this same uselessness :
TEXT (511).
WHAT HAS ALREADY COME INTO EXISTENOT CANNOT BE PRODUCED BY IT OVER AGAIN ; BECAUSE WHAT IS MEANT BY A THING 'OOMING
INTO EXISTENCE' IS THAT THERE SHOULD COME ABOUT SOMETHING THAT DID NOT EXIST BEFORE. IF IT
WERE NOT SO, THEN THERE WOULD BE
NO RESTING AT ALL.(511)
COMMENTARY. Il e were not so, then there would be no resting' ;-i.. if it were not as stated, then there would be no resting,-i.e. there would be no limit; i.e. there would be an infinite regress. If what has come into existence were to be produced again, then there would be an equal possibility of its being produced over again ; and in this way there would be an infinite regress of productions, -there would be no cessation in the activity of the Cause, and the Causes themselves would be liable to be produced ; as there would be nothing to
