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"THE REVEALED WORD."
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TEXTS (2531-2532) IF, ON REACHING THE Äkāsha IN THE AUDITORY ORGAN, THE AIR IMPARTS A CERTAIN CAPACITY TO THE ORGAN, THEN WHY SHOULD THERE BE NO COGNITION OF THE AIR WHEN THERE IS COGNITION OF THE SOUND, JUST AS THERE IS OF THE STROKE OF THE WHIP (WHEN THE WHIP-STROKE IS ALSO COGNISED ALONG WITH THE SOUND OF THE WHIP) ?-THE IDEA THAT -"THE COGNITION OF THE SOUND OBSTRUCTS
THE SAID COGNITION OF THE AIR) "• CANNOT BE RIGHT, FOR ONE WHO IS
COGNISANT OF THE WHIP-STROKE AND ANOTHER AIR (AT THE
SAME TIME).
(2531-2532)
COMMENTARY. There are two views possible in this connection (1) that the Air is perceptible and (2) that it is not-perceptible.
Under the former view, at the time that Sound is cognised, there should be cognition of the Air also, as in the case of the whip-stroke.
It might be argued that,"as two cognitions cannot appear simultaneously, the cognition of Sound obstructs the cognition of the Air".
This cannot be right-in the mouth of one who is cognisant of the whipstroke and the other Air, at the time that the Sound is cognised. Just as the Other Air 'set up by the fan, and the ' whip-stroke' are both perceived at the time that the Sound is heard,-in the same manner there should be the perception of the touch of the Air reaching the auditory organ.
What this shows is that the assertion that there cannot be simultaneous cognitions is contrary to a directly perceived fact.-(2531-2532)
It has been explained already that the idea of simultaneous cognitions is due to the illusion caused by the quickness with which the cognitions appear. It may be that in the case of Cognitions appearing in succession there may be an illusion of simultaneity due to the quickness with which they appear ; but in the present discussion, the said explanation is of no use; hence it is nothing. This is what is asserted in the following:
TEXT (2533). EVEN THOUGH IN SOME CASES, THERE MAY BE ILLUSION OF SIMULTANEITY DUE TO QUICKNESS OF APPEARANCE, -YET THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRESENT CONTEXT, BECAUSE HERE THE AIR IS NOT COGNISED AT ALL.-(2533)
COMMENTARY. It may be that, on account of the quickness in the appearance of the Cognitions, there is an illusion of simultaneity. But this cannot apply to