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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXI.
TEXT (1850).
WHAT BRINGS ABOUT THE FRUIT IS THE CAUSE OF FRUITION,-NOT ANYTHING "Past'. IN FACT, THE FRUIT IS HELD TO PROCEED FROM THE CHAIN' OF COGNITIONS IMPRESSED
BY THE ENTITY (WHEN PRESENT).-(1850)
COMMENTARY. Impressed'-i.e. rendered capable of producing the fruit, through the long series of 'causal factors':-(1850)
Question: "If that is so, then how is it that the Blessed Lord has declared that There is Karma, which decays, is obstructed and becomes modified'? Answer:
TEXT (1851)
IN VIEW OF THE SAID IMPRESSION BEING ATTRIBUTED TO THE SERIES OF COGNITIONS', THE LORD HAS SAID THAT THERE IS Karma', WHICH ASSERTION IS FIGURATIVE; AS THE PRINCIPAL (OF THE DEBT) IS SAID TO BE 'NOT DES
TROYED (LOST)':-(1851)
COMMENTARY. • Bhaktyä 'Figuratively.
When in the case of a Debt, when the accrued interest has become equal to the Principal, the Principal actually disappears ; yet it is said to be
not lost'. In the same way the Karma, Act, also, though past and gone, is spoken of as 'not gone and destroyed'.-(1851)
Question :-"What was the purpose for which the Teaching was given in figurative language ?" Answer :
TEXT (1852).
THE MATTER HAS BEEN EXPLAINED IN THIS WAY BY THE TEACHER, FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMOVING THE NOTION OF THE UTTER ANNIHILATION (OY PAST Acts). OTHERWISE, HOW COULD HE
EXPLAIN THE TEACHING IMPARTED IN THE APHORISM DECLARING THE 'VOID' !-(1852)
COMMENTARY.
If it were declared that the Past act does not exist', it might be understood that there is non-existence of that potency to produce the fruit which had been set going by the past act; and the disciples would come to take