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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXTS (2510-2512).
COGNITION WOULD BE POSSIBLE ONLY IF THE EMBELLISHMENT WERE
occasional ; THE IDEA OF THE EMBELLISHMENT' WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE ONLY IF IT WERE OCCASIONAL. THE IDEA OF 'EMBELLISHMENT', WHICH IS A KIND OF POTENCY, IS DERIVED FROM THE EFFECT IN THE FORM OF THE COGNITION. Now THIS COGNITION MAY
THER APPEAR AT ALL TIMES, OR NOT APPEAR AT ALL. HOW THEN COULD IT INDICATE THE occasional EMBELLISHMENT OF THE AUDITORY ORGAN)? HENCE THE EXPLANATION BASED UPON THE 'EMBELLISHMENT OF THE AUDITORY ORGAN' HAS NOT BEEN SOUND(2510-2512)
COMMENTARY.
Cognition as the effect of Embellishment could be occasional only if the Embellishment were occasional; otherwise if the Cause in its efficient state were there always, why should its effect be occasional ? As a matter of fact however, the Embellishment is not occasional ; this is what is shown in the words- The idea of the Embellishment is derived, etc, etc. That is to say, the Embellishment of the Auditory Organ, deduced from the coming about of its effect in the shape of the Cognition (of Sound), could only consist in a certain Potency :-as Potency alone is what can be deduced from an effect=this Potency should form part of the Auditory Organ itself; it cannot be anything different from it; as in the latter case the Auditory Organ itself would not be the Cause of the effect (Cognition). Then again, as no sort of relationship can be known, whenever the Potency would be there, the resultant Cognition should also be there. If the Cognition is not there, then it could never follow from that Potency; and as a result of this, the Cognition could not be occasional. Under the circumstances, how could the occasional
a indicate the Potency as the 'Embellishment of the Auditory Organ'? It could never indicate it.-(2010-2012)
The following might be urged "It is not an inherent Potency that is inierred from the effect in the shape of Cognition; what happens is that it is an entirely new Potency that is produced in the Auditory Organ by the Articulations, and it is this Potency that is inferred from the Cognition; hence it is quite reasonable that the occasional Cognition becomes indicative of the Potency".
The answer to this is as follow
