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"THE REVEALED WORD.”
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TEXT (2513).
THE POTENCY THAT IS PRODUCED IN THE AUDITORY ORGAN, IF IT IS SOMETHING NOT DIFFERENT FROM THE ORGAN ITSELF, THEN THAT DOES AWAY WITH THE ETERNALITY OF THE Akasha OR OF Space; AS IT WOULD BE SOMETHING
PRODUCED.—(2513)
COMMENTARY.
The Potency that is produced in the Auditory Organ-(1) is it of the nature of the Organ itself ?-or (2) is it something different from it ?-or (3) is it different-non-different 2-These are the three alternatives possible.
Under the first alternative, like the Potency itself, the Auditory Organwhether it consists of Akasha or of Space,-also becomes non-eternal;—why? 'as it would be something produced' ;i.e. because it is produced.
It might be argued that-"The view held is not that the Auditory Organ is non-different from the Potency; but that the Potency is non-different from the Auditory Organ".
Now, just look at this working of sheer blindness! When the nature of one thing is tied up with that of the other, how can this latter be far removed from it at the same time ? Because non-difference between two things consists in the fusion of the natures of both into one. While the Milk remains at a distance from the Water, it does not become mingled with it; hence the explanation suggested is futile.-(2513)
The following Text shows that even if it be as suggested, the view remains open to objection:
TEXT (2514).
THE EMBELLISHMENT OF A THING, BEING NOT-DIFFERENT FROM THE THING ITSELF, MUST BE ETERNAL; CONSEQUENTLY THERE WOULD
BE COGNITION OF THINGS AT ALL TIMES.-(2514)
COMMENTARY
Like the form of the thing itself, the Embellishment also should be eternal, as it is non-different from it. So that this is an additional objection to which the said view is open.—(2514)
The following Text points out the objection against the second alternative (suggested in the Commentary on 2513,—that the Potency imparted to the Auditory Organ is different from it) -