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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
It has been argued by the Mināmsaka, under Text 2198, that-"or, the idea that should be entertained is that the Auditory Organ consists of space, which idea would be in accordance with the Veda".
As this is open to the same objections, the Author applies them to that view, in the following:
TEXT (2538). ALL THOSE OBJECTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN URGED AGAINST THOSE WHO HOLD Akasha TO BE without parts, SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD TO BE EQUALLY APPLICABLE TO THAT VIEW ALSO UNDER WHICH THE AUDITORY ORGAN CONSISTS OF THE ONE INDIVISIBLIO
Space.-(2538)
COMMENTARY
The view that the Auditory Organ consists of the indivisible Space, is open to all those objections—the futility of embellishment, the impossibility of embellishment, etc.--that have been urged against the view that it consists of the indivisible Akäsha. Hence it is not necessary to state the objections against this other view separately.—(2538)
It has been argued by the Mimāmsaka, under Text 2185, that "Even if the Auditory Organ were one and all-pervading, the Embellishment due to Articulation could affect only the material substratum of that organ, eto, etc.".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (2539-2544). UNDER THE VIEW THAT Akasha Is ONE AND ALL-PERVADING, THERE CAN
BE NO SUCH DIVISION AS THAT THE ONE IS THE SUBSTRATUM OF THE EMBELLISHED ORGAN AND THE OTHER IS NOT SO; BECAUSE Akasha IS ONE (AND INDIVISIBLE).-IF THE AUDITORY ORGAN CONSISTS OF THE ONE Akäsha, THEN IT CANNOT HAVE ITS TYMPANUM UN. EMBELLISHED CONSEQUENTLY, ANY RESTRICTION IN THE EMBELLISHMENT ON THE BASIS OF THE SUBSTRATUM CANNOT STAND. CONSEQUENTLY, WHEN THE ORGAN HAS SECURED THE EMBELLISHMENT IN ONE SUBSTRATUM, IT SHOULD BRING ABOUT THE COGNITION IN THE BODIES OF ALL MEN ;-ACCORDING TO THOSE WHO DECLARE THE ORGAN TO BE ONE ONLY. YOU MAY HOLD THAT COGNITIONS (SENSATIONS) APPEAR IN THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BODIES OF MEN; BUT ACCORDING TO YOU, THERE CAN BE NO DIVERSITY OF PLACE FOR THE PRINCIPAL FACTOR, IN RELATION TO Akasha WHICH IS One ONLY.-THE OTHER PARTY MIGHT SAY-“ ACCORDING TO US, THE SOUL IS WITHOUT PARTS, INDIVISIBLE, AND IT IS IN ITS ENTIRETY