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"Even if it is not an Effect, there would be influencing by the mere production of peculiarities.”
Answer: Being eternal, etc. etc. (2548)
[Says the other party)-"If such is the case, then the substratum being not-eternal, the embellishment could be of that, and through that the Auditory Organ also, though eternal, would come to be influenced ".
This is the idea set forth and answered in the following -
TEXT (2549).
"EVEN THOUGH THE SUBSTRATUM IS not-eternal, its non-eternality WOULD NOT BE OF THE NATURE OF momentariness";-IF THIS IS URGED, THEN (THE ANSWER IS THAT), INASMUCH AS NO ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES COULD BE PRODUCED IN IT, Deafness, ETC.
WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE.—(2549)
COMMENTARY.
If it is non-eternal'as its destruction would be sure to come in course of time,-till that time, it would continue to have one and the same form ; and hence, as in the eternal thing, so here also no additional properties would appear in it ; how then, could there be any 'embellishment of it 2-(2549)
Even granting that additional qualities might appear, the author points out that even so the theory is open to objection
TEXTS (2550-2551),
OR, THE ADDITIONAL PROPERTY MAY BE PRODUCED IN THE ORGAN; BUT IN NO CASE COULD IT EXIST IN THE Akasha; NOR COULD IT BE DUE TO ITS CONNECTION WITH ITS RECEPTACLE; BECAUSE IT IS ETERNAL AND INDEPENDENT. HENCE, DEAFNESS, ETC. COULD NOT COME ABOUT THROUGH THAT EITHER.EVEN IF Akasha WERE WITH PARTS AND divisible, THE ARGUMENTS WOULD APPLY TO IT, ON THE GROUND OF ITS eternality.
(2550-2551)
COMMENTARY.
Ega', 'it' stands for the additional property.
"Even if it does not exist there, it may come to it on account of its connection with its receptacle".
It could not be due to its connection with its Receptacle.
As regards the argument that Akasha is not without parts,--the answer is that if the divisible Akasha is held to be eternal, then all the objections