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TATTVASANORAHA : CITAPTER XXIT.
TEXTS (1939–1941). EVEN THOUGH THE TWO COGNITIONS SUBSIST IN TWO DIFFERENT BODIES,
YRT, BY RRASON OF THE LATER COGNITION APPEARING IN THE SAME PARTICULAR CHARACTER AS THE PRECEDING ONE, THE LATER COGNI"TION IS CONNECTED WITH THE SAME CHAIN WITH WHICH THIR PREVIOUS COGNITION IS CONNECTED, FURTHER, EVEN IN THE CASE OP NEWLY-BORN INFANTS, THERE IS ACTIVITY TOWARDS SUCKING THE BREAST, AS ALSO DISPLEASURE AT BEING BAULKED; ALL WHICH IS INFERRED FROM SUCH ACTS AS CRYING, SUCKING THE BREAST AND SO FORTH.-ALL THIS IS OF THE NATURE OF CONCEPTUAL COGNITION, AND CONCEPTUAL COGNITION IS ASSOCIATED WITH NAMES (VERBAL EXPRESSION).-(1939-1941)
COMMENTARY. By reason of the later Cognition, er, elc. '-That is, the Cognitions of the prosent life appear with the same peculiarities as the Cognitions of the previous life. This has been thus declared Through repeated practice, good and evil doods appear in the nature of men ; and thene same appear in future lives, without any instruction, like a dream
The Materialist has argued as follows:-" The Body in this world and the Body in the other world' being entirely different, the Chain of the Cognitions in those two bodies cannot be one and the same : ko that the first Cognition that appears in the Foetus cannot belong to the same Chain ns the Cognition under dispute, -because they belong to different bodies. ---like the Cognitions of the Buffalo, the Boar and other animals".
This also becomes refuted by what has been said above.
Thon again, for the following reason also the existence of the other world' should be admitted :-Every Conceptual Cognition is preceded by the repeated Cognition of words,-because it is Conceptual, like the Con. ceptual Thoughts occurring in youth and old age the Conceptual Cognition involved in the desire for sucking the breast and so forth appearing in newborn infants is Conceptual ;-hence this is a Reason based upon the nature of things.
The Reason cannot he said to be one which has an unadmitted sub. stratum ; because the existence of the Minor Term in the shape of the desire for sucking the breast, etc., is proved by such effects in newborn infants as crying and actual breast-sucking ; such crying and breast-sucking cannot be possible in one who has no conception of liking and disliking.
Nor is the Reason 'inadmissible by itself';this is shown by the words all this is of the nature of Conceptual, eto, etc., All this i.e. the desire for breast-sucking, etc.-is of the nature of Conceptual Thought; because it is apprehended as something sought after.
That the Reason is not 'Inconclusive' is shown by the words is associated with names'. *Sah' stands for Conceptual Cognition. Inasmuch as Conceptual Cognition is associated with verbal expression, it is said to be associated with names'. This association with names,