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TATIVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVII.
Question: "If that is so, then let there be only the qualification not erroneous'; what is the use of mentioning the freedom from conceptual content'?"
Answer :-That cannot be right; as in that case the inferential concept Also would have to be regarded as Sense-perception.-(1312)
TEXTS (1313-1314).
SOME PEOPLE HAVE HELD THAT ILLUSION IS PURELY mental. BUT THAT
IS NOT SO; AS IT IS FOUND TO APPEAR ONLY WHEN THE SENSEORGAN IS PRESENT (AND OPERATIVE) AND TO CEASE WHEN THIS LATTER (BECOMES DISORDERED, CHASES). IF IT WERE PURELY MENTAL, IT SHOULD CBASE LIKE THE ILLUSION REGARDING A SERPENT, EVEN WHEN THE DISORDER OF THE SENSE-ORGAN HAS NOT CEASED; AND YET IT CONTINUES TO BE PERCEIVED QUITE CLEARLY.
-(1313-1314)
COMMENTARY
The idea of these 'some people' is that it is not necessary to add, to the definition of Sense-perception, the qualifying term 'not erroneons' (for the purpose of excluding Illusion which, being purely mental, can never be Sense-perception ').
Against this view the following might be urged Granting that Illusion is mental; even so, it is not necessary to add the qualifying term 'not erroneons; because what the person propounding the definition under review wanted to do was not to provide a definition of only that 'Sense. perception' which is brought about by the Sense-organs, but also of that Sense-perception which appears in the Mystic and which is purely mental; 28 in this latter Dream.cognition also is non-conceptual, as it appears quite distinctly; and yet it is not 'non-errongeus'; hence for the exclusion of this, the addition of the qualifying term 'non-erroneous is necessary.
This is true; but there are Illusions possible through the Senses also (and they are not always mental); hence the said view of 'some people' is not right.
The author explains how Illusions may be sense-born- But that is not so, etc. etc.'-The illusion appears only when the Sense-organ is there, and when the Sense-organ is in any way disordered, i.e. burt-the Illusion ceases; which shows that like any other sense-born cognition, this Illusion of the Hair-tuft' and the like also is Sense-born.
Further, if the Illusion belonged entirely to the Mind, then the mental aberration would be the sole cause of the Illusion, and hence the Illusion would coase on the cessation of the mental aberration, though the disorder
