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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXT (2515).
IF THE POTENCY IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE AUDITORY ORGAN, THEN THERE CAN BE NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO.-FURTHER, THE AUDITORY ORGAN CANNOT BE AN ACTIVE AGENT (IN THE BRINGING ABOUT OF THE COGNITION), AS THE COGNITION
WOULD BE BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE Potency.-(2515)
COMMENTARY. If the Potency be held to be something different from the thing (the Auditory Organ),-then there could be no such relationship as 'this is the Potency of that's because what does not derive any benefit from another thing cannot be dependent upon this latter. And as a matter of fact, the Auditory Organ does not benefit the Potency; because what has been held to render help to the Potency is only the manifesting agency in the shape of Articulation.-If the Auditory Organ be regarded as helping the Potency, then that Potency of the Auditory Organ), which would help the Potency, would be something different from the Auditory Organ; and so on and on, there would be an Infinite Regress. And in this way, as the Potencies them. selves would accomplish all that is necessary, the effect (in the shape of the Cognition) would follow from the Potency, and the Auditory Organ would not be an active agent in bringing it about; and this would render it liable to be regarded as a non-entity.
If (in order to escape from the Infinite Regress) it be held that the Potency that helps the Potency is not anything different from the Auditory Organ). -then why should there be any hostility against the first Potency itself ?
Then again, there would be the contingency of the Potency being produced constantly; as its Cause, in the shape of the Auditory Organ, is eternal; and what does not derive any benefit from anything else could not be dependent upon auxiliaries.--(2516)
The Author now takes up the third alternative (suggested in the Com. mentary on Text 2513,--that 'the Potency is different-non-different from the Auditory Organ) :
TEXT (2516).
THE OTHER ALTERNATIVE ALSO- UNDER WHICH THERE IS NEITHER DIFFERENCE NOR NON-DIFFERENCE-HAS ALREADY BEEN OVERTHROWN.-THUS WHEN THE EMBELLISHMENT OF THE AUDITORY ORGAN' IS PUT FORWARD AS THE EXPLANATION, IT MUST BE DUE TO THE FACT OF THE PERSON PROPOUNDING IT
BEING NOT EMBELLISHED ' (CULTURED).-(2516)
COMMENTARY. * Already overthrown'-under the chapter on the 'Pudgala'. The reason for it lies in the fact, that the same thing cannot be both affirmed and
