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EXAMINATION OF 'SYĀDVĀDA' (JAINA DOCTRINE).
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TEXTS (1780-1783). THIS IS NOT RIGHT ; BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCE OF A COMMON SUBSTRATUM ;
PRODUCTION, CONTINUANCE AND DESTRUCTION CANNOT HAVE THE SAME SUBSTRATUM; FOR IF THEY HAD, IT WOULD INVOLVE THE PRESENCE AT THE SAME TIME OF ALL THESE MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY PROPERTIES. ALL THIS WOULD BE FREE FROM DIFFICULTIES UNDER THE DOOTRINE OF PERPETUAL FLUX'; FOR WHY SHOULD ANY MAN BE SORRY AT THE ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION OF GOLD IN THE FORM OF THE POT? WHY TOO SHOULD THERE BE ANY JOY AT THE PRODUCTION OF THE GOLD IN THE NEW FORM OF THE DISH? As FOR continuance, THERE IS NONE, OF ANYTHING AT ALL.-(17801783).
COMMENTARY. The principal sentence is because of the absence of a common substratum'; this is explained in what follows- Production, Continuanco, etc. etc. If a single entity had the three aspects of Production and the rest,then it would mean that all these three-Production, Continuance and Destructionare there in the thing at one and the same time; and yet it cannot be possible for these mutually contradictory properties to be present in anything at one and the same time; as otherwise, they would not be contradictories at all.
Question-"How then can there be the three notions described ? " In answer to this the Teat shows how this is possiblean this, etc. etc.
When the Gold in the shape of the Pot is destroyed by itself-why should any man so wanting it be sorry for it? Why too, on the production of a new thing in the shape of the Dish out of the Gold, should one be happy? As for continuance, there can be no such thing for anything of the nature of Gold; as both Production and Destruction are absolute without any connection with anything (past or future).-(1780-1783)
Question "If that be so, then how is there the feeling of Indifference ? " Answers
TEXTS (1784-1785). WHEN THE DULL-WITTED MAN PERCEIVES THE TWO THINGS MADE OF GOLD, HE LOOKS UPON IT AS A CASE OF THE APPEARANCE OF SIMILAR PRODUCTS AND THEREBY COMES TO THINK OF IT AS SOMETHING LASTING.-IF THE GOLD ITSELF HAD A LASTING FORM, THEN THAT FORM, IN THE SHAPE OF THE Dish, COULD BE PERCEIVED IN ITS PRECEDING AND SUOCEEDING STATES ALSO; OR ELSE, THERE WOULD BE
DIVERSITY.-(1784-1785)
COMMENTARY. When the dull-witted man perceives the two things-the Pot and the Dish-made of gold,-though perceiving it, he is not able to distinguish