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LOKÄYATA-MATERIALISM.
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TEXTS (1861-1862).
"THERE CAN BE XO RELATION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT BETWEEN THE
TWO MINDS (CONSCIOUSNESSES) UNDER DISPUTE,-BECAUSE TREY SUBSIST IN DIFFERENT BODIES, JUST LIKE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE COW AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE HORSE.COGNITIONS (CONSCIOUSNESS) CANNOT BE THE EFFECTS OF THE COGNITION (CONSCIOUSNESS) IN QUESTION - BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSCIOUSNESS, -LIKE CONSCIOUSNESS CON. NECTED WITH ANOTHER
SERIES'."-(1861-1862)
COMMENTARY
"Further, if the Mind that existed in the past body were the cause of the Mind (Consciousness) in the body now born, and the Mind in the dying body were the cause of the Mind in the future body,--then, inasmuch as there would be no cessation in the continuity of the Mind, the existence of the other world' might be postulated. As a matter of fact, however, there can be no relation of Cause and Effect between the said two Minds in dispute-because they reside in different bodies -- just like the Cognition of the Cow and the Cognition of the Horse
"Or, the produced Cognitions maybe made the "Subject', -in regard to which there is denial of the idea of their being produced by the last cognition in the past (dead) body-the ‘Probans' being the same as before, because they are cognitions ;-the Cognitions appearing in other Series' supply the Corroborative Instance.
"The argument may be formulated as follows The (present) Cognition cannot be produced by the last Cognition in the Past body,--because it is Cognition like the Cognition appearing in another Series the Cognitions appearing in the Body in question are all Cognitions hence there is apprehension of what is concomitant with the contrary; inasmuch as being cognition is concomitant with the contrary of being produced by the Cognition in the last Body in question":-(1861-1862)
The idea of the previous birth' has thus been denied by the Materialist; he proceeds to deny the future birth':
