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cognition and the Dream-cognition, the difference is quite clear in that while the former is compatible with effective action, the latter is not".
The answer to this is What is this compatibility with effective action ?'- If it is the reaching of the external object--then, that is not yet established ; in fact, it is for the establishing of the external object that the Reason has been put forward.—If, on the other hand, compatibility with effective action' be held to consist in the Cognition envisaging the desired effective action,—then, otherwise also,-i.e. even withont the external object, such compatibility would he possible ; so that the Reason adduced is clearly Inconclusive
Question "How would it be possible otherwise ?"
Answers on account of the capacity for action being restricted' i.e. because the capacity of the canse, consisting in the immediately preceding Oognition, is restricted ; that is, a certain preceding Cognition is capable of bringing about only a particular Cognition ; all are not able to produce all; for example, your own 'External Object'; which also proves that there is restriction in the capacity of things.-(1973-1979)
The following texta urge the defect of 'inadmissibility in the Probans adduced by the Buddhist, because it is not recognised in consciousness',from the view point of Sumati, the Digambara (Jaina) -
TEXTS (1980-1983)
" ATOMS HAVING TWO FORMS, similar (COMMON) AND dissimilar (UNCOM
MON), -WHEN THE common form is THE THING APPREHENDED, THEN THE UNCOMMON FORM IS NOT APPREHENDED; SUCH BEING THE CASE, WHAT IS IT THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE ?-IN FACT, ALL THINGS EXIST IN TWO FORMS, THE UNIVERSAL' AND THE PARTICULAR'; HENCE ATOMS ARE DECLARED TO HAVE TWO FORMS-THE common AND THR uncommon. OF THESE, IT IS THE common FORM THAT IS AMENABLE TO SENSE-COGNITION. HENCE IT IS ONLY IN REFERENCE TO ATOMS THAT THERE CAN BE COGNITION OF ONLY ONE FORM. THAT FORM OF THE ATOMS WHICH IS uncommon IS HELD TO BE AMENABLE TO MYSTIC PERCEPTION " SUCH ARE THE CONFOUNDED ASSUMPTIONS OF SOME PULL-WITTED PERSONS.-(1980-1983)
COMMENTARY. Sumati has argued as follows:-All things have two aspects the Universal and the Particular; consequently Atoms exist in two forms-the common and the uncommon; of these, it is the Common form that is apprehended by the Senses, not the uncommon form. In this way there is nothing incongruous in there being one uniform Cognition apprehending all Atoms; and thus it is by Perception that Atoms become established.
Confounded'-indefinite; in as much as it implies no one definite form. -(1980-1983)