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TATTVASANGRAHA; CHAPTER XVII.
(6) As regards the Premiss that the Illusion is an aberration brought about by the disorder of the Sense-organ, that also is Inadmissible in the direct sense; and if taken in the indirect sense, this also is Inconclusive ; as in the case of the Mule, which is born of the Mare from the Ass, all the embryonic stages intervene between the contact of the animals and the birth of the Mule-and it is only when the final product is subsequently found to resemble the Ass that the idea comes about that it is born of the Ass; but that does not necessarily lead to the conclusion that it is produced from the Ass directly.
(c) The assertion that "Mental Illusion ceases on reflection is also Inconclusive,- in view of the ideas of Entity and Universal'. That is, for you the Buddhist, who, relying on Reasoning, hold that there is no such thing as the Universal,—the generic idea that there is in regard to things like the Jar being entities' or 'universals does not cease at all. If you think that," when one comes to reflect over them, the said ideas do disappear, through such notions as these ideas do not appertain to the Specific Individuality" —then we say that this is no answer at all. In the case of the Illusions regarding Too Moons and the like, when one comes to ponder over them, they also cease through the notion that these do not appertain to the Specific Individuality'; and yet these do not become mental'.
It might be urged that "the existence of these does not cease".
The same may be said in regard to the notions of the Universal, etc. also; as the existence of these also does not cease.-(1315-1320)
The following Texts supply the Author's answer to the above arguments
TEXTS (1321–1323).
THE IDEA OF THE ILLUSION BEING THERE WHEN THE SENSE-ORGAN IS
THERE CANNOT BE SAID TO BE INADMISSIBLE', IN ITS DIRECT SENSE. BECAUSE THERE IS NO INTERVENTION BY ANY UNMISTAKEN (RIGHT) NOTION; AS NO SUCH INTERVEWING RIGHT NOTION IS EVER APPREHENDED.-EVEN WHEN THE MAN HAS HIS MIND NOT TURNED TO OTHER THINGS, HE HAS THE CONTINUOUS PERCEPTION OF TWO MOONS '; WHICH SHOWS THAT THE PRODUCTION (OF THE ILLUSION, BY THE SENSE-ORGAN) IS NOT indirect.-AS REGARDS THE IDEAS OF
ENTITY', 'UNIVERSAL ' AND SO FORTH, - WHERE THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF THEIR BEING RETRACTED,-CESSATION IS QUITE POSSIBLE, IF THE PERSON SO WISHES. SO ALSO IN THE CASE OF THE IDEA RELATING TO GOD.-(1321-1323)
COMMENTARY.
* Cannot be Inadmissible', -i.e, it must be admissible.- Why Because there is no intervention by any unmistaken notion of the One Moon
