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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER IS.
TEXT (537).
YOU ALSO HAVE TO SUPPLY SOME EXPLANATION IN ANSWER TO THE AROVE; AND WHATEVER ANSWER YOU PUT FORWARD WOULD
ALSO BE OUR ANSWER TO IT.-(537)
COMMENTARY
The criticism that has been urged applios equally to both parties ; as you also will have to accept one or the other of the two views-of Cognition having forrn or being formless otherwise there would be no possibility of the Cognition apprehending an object.-Nor is there any other alternative besides these two ways in which the Cognition could apprehend the object. When a criticism is applicable to both parties, it should not be urged by one against the other. Thus then the answer that you may be able to make to tlya criticism shall be our answer also. For instance, under the view that Oognition has some form, the answer that you might make would be either that the forms are unreal, or that they are nothing different from the Cognition itself with which it is found to be invariably concomitant, even though the two appear to be different ;--and this sume answer shall be ours 190.Under the viow that Cognition is formless, the explanation that could be given would be that that character of the Cognition whereby it approhends only a particular tluing is due to previous Causes ;-and this same answer shall be available for 18 Bauddhas also, who hold Cognitions to be formless. Hence our answer to the Opponent's criticism is that it cannot be urgod against us.-(537)
Having thus established the existence of the Means of Right Cognition apprehending the Relation of Cause and Effect, the Author nowy proceeds to meet the objection that his theory involves the anomaly of the waste of what is done and the befalling of what is not done'
TEXTS (538-539).
THERE WOULD BE WASTE OF WHAT IS DONE, ONLY IF THE CAUSE DID NOT PRODUCE AN EFFECT NO SUCH VIEW HOWEVER IS HELD BY US, WHEREBY THEEH COULD BE NO CAUSAL CHARACTER '-TRE * BETALLING OF WHAT IS NOT DONE' ALSO WOULD BE THERE IF AN EFFECT WERE PRODUCED WITHOUT A CAUSE ; THIS ALSO IS NOT HELD BY US; AS THE PRODUCTION OF THE EFPECT IS ALWAYS DEPENDENT UPON THE POTENCY OF A PARTICULAR
CAUSE.-(538-539)
COMMENTARY.
Ii it had been held by us that there is really a Doer and Experiencer, then the doctrine of the 'Perpetual Flux 'might have involved the anomaly of the
