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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER IIT.
TEXTS (101-102). THE ANSWER TO THIS IS AS FOLLOWS:-AT THE TIME THAT THE TWO ARE
PERFORMING ONE ACT (OF CREATING OR MAINTAINING OR DISSOLVING),--IS TENIR CAPACITY TO PERFORM THE OTHER ACTS PRESENT? OR IS IT NOT PRESENT !-IF IT IS PRESENT, TEEN AT THE TIME OF creation, THE OTHER TWO ACTS ALSO SHOULD COME ABOUT:-THUS WHENEVER ANY ONE OF THE ACTS WOULD BE THERE, THE OTHER TWO WOULD
HAVE TO BE THERE I-(101.102)
COMMENTARY. The term 'layoh, the two', stands for Primordial Matter and God; al the time of performing one act:-i.e. from among the three acts of creating, maintaining and dissolving.- at the time that any one is being done, is their capacity to do the other two acts present in them or not?- These are the two alternatives. If the capacity is there, then, inasmuch as at the timo of creating, their Cause would be present in its untrammelled form, the other two acts-of maintaining and dissolving should also come about, just like the act of creating ; so that at the time that a thing would be maintained in excistence-its creation and dissolution also should be there! And at the time of dissolution, there should be its maintained existence and creation! This certainly cannot be right. Because when the three conditions are mutually nugatory (and incompatible) it is not possible that they should co-exist in the same object.-(101-102)
The following might be urged—“At the time that Primordial Matter and God are bringing about one offect in the shape of the Creation (Birth) of one thing, there is not present in them that particular form of theirs which would be productive of the other two effects (Maintenance and Dissolution); that is why there is no possibility of the absurdity that has been urged.”
The answer to this is provided in the following Text:
TEXT (103). As A MATTER OF FACT, THE Two (PRIMORDIAL MATTER AND GOD) ARE THE
CAUSE OF THE OTHER TWO AOTS ALSO, NOT IN ANY OTHER FORM THAN THE ONE THAT BRINGS ABOUT THE ONE AOT; THE FORM OF THE CAUSE REMAINS THE SAME; WHY THEN SHOULD THERE BE ANY CESSATION OF THE FUNC
TIONING OF ANY ACT AT ALL 1-(103)
COMMENTARY. The Pronoun Tat stands for the Cause, that is, Primordial Matter and God, -of the other,-i.e. of the two subsequent acts.--Not in any other form,
