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EXAMINATION OF SAMAVĀYA' (INHERENCE, SUBSISTENCE).
fast. you have to question yourself, who have assumed the effect, under your own whim; whims do not always follow the real state of things; they Are essentially free from all restraint; hence nothing can be proved on their basis ; as it would lead to an infinite regress. For instance, for what is Assumed by you, another person might assume something entirely different.
(830)
Then again, it is not that notions like this subsists in that do not appoar at all ; in fact, the notions that co appear are to the contrary. This is what is shown in the following
TEXTS (831-834).
THE NOTION THAT DOES APPEAR IN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE IS IN THE
FORM THE BRANCHES in THE TREE, THE STONES in THE HILL: AND THIS NOTION PROCEEDS FROM THE FACT THAT THE TWO (THE BRANCH AND THE STONES) ARE PERCEIVED TO BE IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE OTHER PORTIONS OF THE TWO IMMOVABLES' (TREE AND HILL). THE NOTION THAT THOSE TWO (TREE AND MOUNTAIN) subsist in THESE (BRANCHES AND THE STONES) HOWEVER THAT IS PUT FORWARD (BY THE OPPONENT) IS ONE THAT IS BEYOND ALL ORDINARY EXPERIENCE. WHAT SUCH NOTIONS AS 'THIS COLOUR OR THAT ACTION IN THIS JAR' APPREHEND IS identity; THE GENERAL TERMS "COLOUR' (* AOTION), JAR' CONNOTE THESE THINGS GENERALLY, IN ALL STATES AND CONDITIONS; HENCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MENTIONING THEIR PARTICULAR FORMS, THEY ARE SPOKEN OF IN THE MANNER EXPRESSED IN THE SAID NOTIONS; AND IT IS ON THE BASIS OF THOSE PARTICULAR FORMS THAT THE NOTION APPEARS IN THAT FORM, -NOT ON THE BASIS OF INHERENCE': BECAUSE THE DISTINCTION AMONG ALL THESE IS NOT PERCEIVED.
-(831-834)
COMMENTARY.
In ordinary life such notions are met with as The Branches in the Tree', The Stones in the Hill', -and not such as "The Tree in the Branches, *the Hill in the Stones'. That notion also of the Branches in the Tree is not due to Inherence; it is due to the fact that the two (Branches and Stones) are perceived in close contact with portions of the two inamovables', other than the Tree and Stones spoken of,—those other portions being the Trunk of the Tree, and the Base of the Hill.-The term 'immovables is meant to stand for both, the Tree and the Hill, in view of the fact that both are equally immovable.
