Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

Author(s): Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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DOOTRINE OF PRIMORDIAL MATTER.
TEXT (33).
THE BASIS OF THE SAID CONCEPTION) LIES IN THE FACT THAT THE FORM OF A THING PERCEIVED IN IMMEDIATE SEQUENCE TO ANOTHER THING DID NOT EXIST BEFORE. IF THE SAID THING
HAD EXISTED PREVIOUSLY, THEN THIS BASIS WOULD NOT BE THERE (FOR THE SAID
ASSUMPTION).-- (33)
COMMENTARY When the previously unrerceived form of a particular thing is perceived in immediate seqnence to another thing, the said form is one that did not erist before-i.e. prior to its own middlemost state'*--for the simple reason that it is not apprehended as ful6lling the conditions of being percoived. Hence this forms the basis for the conception that the thing that is produced is one that did not exist before.-" How so?"-If the said thing, etc.;-ie. prior to its middlemost state', if the form of the thing, this middlemost state, had existed, there could be no room for the said basis of the Conception that what was non-existent has become produced'. Because the term becomes produced' connotes that particular state of the thing which appears in its middlemost state'; and if this were present even previously (to that state), then this would set aside the notion that the form of the thing consists in that particular form of it which appears during the middlemost state' only. As (ex hypothesi), it would be as all-pervading as Akasha, and as such it could not have any
previous' or 'middlemost or subsequent states at all. Under the circumstances, it would be possible to assert that all things are produced at all times', as there would be no grounds for differentiation.-(33)
With the following Text, the Author proceeds to point out further defects in the doctrine of the Existent Effect -
TEXT (34) IT HAS BEEN HELD THAT THE CURD AND OTHER Effects SUBSIST IN THE MILK AND OTHER Causes, IN THE FORM OF Latent Potency; NOW WHAT IS THIS POTENCY'? IF IT IS THE SAME AS THE Curd AND OTHER EFFECTS, THEN THIS ALSO WOULD BE PERCEIVED LIKE THE
MILK ITSELF. (34)
COMMENTARY It is asserted (by the Sarikhya) that the Effect subsists in the Cause; what do you really mean by this? Do yon mean that the Effect exists
Each object has three momentary States': (1) moment of non-existence, prior to coming into existence, (2) moment of existence, and (3) moment of nonexistence, cessation, destruction.