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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXI.
TEXTS (1954–1956). WHEN THE OBJECTS ARE PRESENT, THERE APPEAR PLEASURE, ETC.;
FROM THIS PLEASURE, ETC. PROCEED THE 'AFFLICTIONS' or Love, HATE AND THE REST,-BEING THE OUTCOME OF THE FRUITION OF THE IMPRESSIONS LEFT BY SIMILAR PAST FEELINGS,IN MEN WHO ARE DEVOID OF WISDOM AND ARE SUBJECT TO EVIL PROPENSITIES (?), -IN ACOORDANCE WITH THE POTENCY OF THINGS. DIRECTLY, THE OBJECTS ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF THE FEELINGS ; IF THEY WERE, A SINGLE AFFLIOTION WOULD BE THE CAUSE OF THEM ALL,IN REGARD TO THE OBJECT, -LIKE THE COGNITION OF THINGS.-(1954-1956)
COMMENTARY. The process is as follows:-When the Object is present, there appears pleasure born of the sense-organ concerned from this Pleasure, proceed the 'Afflictions of Love, etc.,-in men devoid of wisdom (and dispassion) and subject to evil propensities and tendencies out of the fruition of the Impressions left by the previously experienced feelings of Love, etc. ; So that the Objects are not the direct cause of the feelings.
The following might be urged "You are only expounding your own doctrine ; you state no reasons".
The answer to this is- A single Affliction, etc. etc.':- Single-i.e. of a single kind.- Tatra'-in regard to the object. — Tasya'-of the object. Like the cognition of things'; i.e. like the Cognition apprehending the form of the Blue and other things.-As a matter of fact however, a single * Affliction is not what actually appears; for instance, in regard to the single object in the shape of the body of the Woman, while in one man the feeling aroused is that of Love, in another it is Hate, while in yet another, mere jealousy ; so that there are several kinds of Afflictions' (Feelings) that appear.-(1954-1956)
The following might be urged "The feelings of Love, etc. that appear during the present life cannot be the effect of repeated experience in the past; they arise either from the seeing of the actual act done by others, or from the advice of other persons ".
This is answered in the following
TEXT (1957). THE APPEARANCE OF THE FEELINGS CANNOT BE DUE EITHER TO THE PERCEPTION OF THE DOINGS OF OTHERS, OR TO HEARING OF THINGS FROM OTHER PERSONS ;-BECAUSE SUCH IS NOT FOUND TO
BE THE CASE ALWAYS.-(1957)
COMMENTARY. Vrtti' stands for doings.-(1957)
The following text shows how that is not found to be the case always :