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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVIL
This indicates the conceptual Content as something directly perceived ; the said Idea being recognised by the experience of all living beings.-(1215)
The following Text shows that the said Conceptual Content is well known as the source of all activities of persons from infancy onwards :
TEXT (1216). THROUGH THE CONTINUANCE OF THE IMPRESSION LEFT BY THE CON. STANT ASSOCIATING OF THE THING AND ITS NAME DURING PAST LIVES,-EVEN THE NEW-BORN INFANT BECOMES CAPABLE OF ACTIVITY, BY REASON OF THE SAID CONCEPTUAL
CONTENT.-(1216)
COMMENTARY
Afisa-bhava' is past lines :-during these there has been nämärthabhavan', constant associating of things with their names this constant associating leaves its' Fasana', Impressions, or capacity in the mind;-through the 'antaya'. continuance of this capacity, even the infant has ideas associated with words; and it is through the presence of this Conceptual Content (Idea associated with words), that the infant becomes capable of activity,--such as smiling, crying, sucking the breast, becoming pleased and so forth. From this effect its canse in the shape of the said Conceptual Content is assumed in the infant. This has been thus declared All activity in the world is based upon words, which even the infant has recourse to, through the inpressions left by past lives
This Conceptual Content, presenting the object, as associated with vague verbal expressions and existing only in the subjective form, -as if it were something external.- appears in the mind of Infants also, by virtue of which in their later life, they become capable of comprehending the relevant Conventions.-(1216)
The Author shows again how the existence of the Conceptual Content is vonched for by Perception :
TEXT (1217).
THAT WHICH IS CLEARLY COGNISED AT THE TIME OF REFLECTION AND IMAGINATION AS IF INTERPENETRATING THEM,-CANNOT BE
SET ASIDE BY MERE WORDS.-(1217)
COMMENTARY The following Text shows that the existence of Conceptual Content is proved by Inference from its effect in the shape of Verbal Usage :
