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TATTVASANGRAKA : CHAPTER X.
TEXT (544).
TGNORANCE AND THE REST, IN THE TORM OF 'CAUSE AND EFFECT, ARR HELD TO CONSTITUTE BONDAGE, AND THE CESSATION OF THESE, AS CONSISTING IN THE PURITY OF THE MIND,
IS HELD TO CONSTITUTE ' LIBERATION'.-(544)
COMMENTARY
For us no Bondage and Liberation have been admitted as belonging to any one entity; as no one is held to be either bound' or ' liberated'; all that is admitted by us is that Impressions' in the form of Ignorance and the rest ending with decay and death are spoken of as 'Bondage on the ground of their being the cause of pain. This has been thus declared :
All this is merely an aggregate of the Thought-phase that causes painWhen the said Tgnorance and the roat conse, by virtue of True Knowledge, thoro comes about purity of the Mind; and it is this purity that is spoken of as 'Liberation': as tims doclared-'When the Mind is beset with the troubles of Attachment and the rest, it constitutes the Cycle of Birth and Death, and when the same is freed from then, it is called the End of Birth'.-(044)
It has been argued (under Text 499) that * Bondage and Liberation appear in the same substratum" -The next Text proceeds to show that in this argument the Corroborative Instance cited is 'devoid of the Probandum':
TEXT (545).
EVEN IS THE ORDINARY WORLD, THESE TWO BONDAGE AND LIBERATION'-ARE NOT ADMITTED AS APPEARING IN THE SAME SUB
STRATUM; AS EVERYTHING IS HELD TO BE momentary.-(545)
COMMENTARY.
When it has been proved that everything perishes immediately after it is born, then nowhore can Bondage and Liberation be accepted as appearing in the same substratum ; hence wbat has been cited by the Opponent as the Corroborative Instance is what is not admitted.-(545)
Having thus established his own doctrine, the Author proceeds to discard the doctrine of the Opponent :
