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TATTVASASGRAJA: CFAPTER IX.
Thon again, tlus Operation that is said to proclucu the Effect,- does it produce it Wurotgh the medium of another Operation Or by its mere scistenca ? It could not be the former, ts, in that case, the causal character should belong to that other Operution, not to the previous Operation, and for this later Operation alss, there would bo the need for another Operation, etc.-all which would be open to the same objection. And if that other Operation also would need a further Operation, then there would be an infinite regress.-(524)
If then, it ba hold that the Operation produces the Effect by its mere existence.-Then, like this Operation, the Thing itself might produce the Effect by its mera existence; and the Assuming of the Operation would be entirely futile. This is what is explained in the following
TEXT (525).
JUST AS THE OPERATION', WITHOUT ANY OTHER (OPERATION), IS HELD TO BE THE Cause or THE EFFECT,-IN THE SAME WAY, WHY
CANNOT OTHERS, LIKE IT, BH Causes 1-(525)
COMMENTARY
Just as the Operation, without further Operation, is regarded as the Cause of the Effect, in the shape of the Sprout,-in the same manner, why cannot other things also, without any partioular Oporations, be regarded as Causes 1-(526)
It might be argued that the Operation does not directly help the Effect, it helps only the Thing to which it belongs ".
The answer to this is provided in
TEXT (526),
[wluich is missing in the printed Text; the commentary upon it however is available, as iollows]:
The phrase "held to be the Cause' (of Text 525) is to be construed here also.-What is meant is that for you also, when the causal character would belong to the thing as equipped with the Operation, it would be so without the intervention of a further Operation ; so that there would be no Corroborative Instance available for you.-(526)
Then again, apart from its existence, there can be no other Operation of the Thing, for the simple reason that if it were there, it would be perceived, and yet its not perceived.--This is explained in the following
