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“THE REVEALED WORD."
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Says the Opponent-It cannot be admitted that the single Sun is perceived as diverse because of the separateness of space between the reflecting Media); because what are actually apprehended by the Eye are so many diverse reflected images of the Sun ; and it is not the Sun that is apprehended. For you, who do not regard the reflected image to be different from the object reflected, there can be no cause for the apprehension of several reflected images
This argument of the Opponent is what is referred to in the following:
TEXT (2215).
" THE OPPONENT SAYS-BY WHAT CAUSE ARE THE REFLECTED IMAGES PERCEIVED SIMULTANEOUSLY AS DISTINCT IN EACH VESSEL (OF WATER)?'"-[Shlokavārtika-ETERNALITY OF WORDS,
179-180].-(2215)
COMMENTARY.
* Aha'' says '—the Opponent. Simultaneously'-at one and the same time.-(2215)
The answer to the above is as follows:
TEXTS (2216-2217).
“OUR ANSWER TO THIS IS AS FOLLOWS:-WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IS
THAT BY THE LIGHT FROM THE SUN SCINTILLATING IN THE WATER, THE LIGHT FROM THE EYE (STRIKING THE WATER) IS TURNED BACK IN THE WAKE OF THE REFLECTED SOLAR LIGHT, AND THUS IT PERCEIVES THE SUN IN ITS OWN REGION, BUT THERE IS AN ILLUSION OF THERE BEING SEVERAL SUNS OF DIVERSE FORMS, BY REASON OF THE DIVERSITY OF THE VESSELS OF WATER. HOW THEN COULD THERE BE MULTIPLICITY OF Suns?” [Shlokavārtika-ETERNALITY OF WORDS—180-182).—(2216-2217)
COMMENTARY.
The solar light in the vessel of Water which flows out makes the light of the Eyes turn back-reflected backwards-and hence, it apprehends the Sun in its own place.