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"THE REVEALED WORD.”
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TEXT (2577).
IN THE WATER AND OTHER REFLECTING SUBSTANCES, IT IS NOT THE SAME SUN SEEN IN VARIOUS FORMS; BECAUSE THE COGNITIONS THAT ARE THERE ALL PERTAIN TO THE REFLECTED IMAGES, AND ARE ENTIRELY DEVOID OF ANY OBJECTIVE
BASIS.-(2577)
COMMENTARY
It has already been explained before that all wrong cognitions are, without exception, devoid of any objective basis ; still it is explained again, in the following Text, in connection with the cognitions of the reflected images,-be they regarded as (a) with or (b) without form. First the Author takes up the former view (that the Reflected Image has a form):
TEXTS (2578-2582).
EVEN UNDER YOUR VIEW, ALL COGNITIONS ARE formless, AND IT IS ONLY
THE EXTERNAL THING THAT IS HELD TO BE with form. THE REFLECTED IMAGE THAT IS SEEN IS SEEN WITHIN THE WATER; AND YET THE SUN EXISTING IN THE SKY IS NOT THERE IN THE WATER.-"How IS IT THEN THAT IT APPEARS AS IF IN THE WATER ? "-IT IS THROUGH DELUSION, AND HENCE IT IS THAT IT IS CLEARLY DEVOID OF AN OBJECTIVE BASIS ; BECAUSE IT HAS NO CONNECTION WITH ANY OBJECT WITH THAT FORM.-IF IT IS URGED THAT “IT IS THE SAME SUN THAT IS PERCEIVED OTHERWISE", -THIS WOULD BE ANOTHER EXCELLENT ASSERTION—THE 8ame AND YET otherwise.—BUT IN THIS WAY, EVERY COGNITION WOULD APPREHEND EVERYTHING. IT WOULD BE THE COGNITION OF THE SAME SUN ONLY IF IT WERE SEEN EXACTLY AS IT IS; WHEN HOWEVER, IT IS ACTUALLY PERCEIVED IN ANOTHER FORM, HOW COULD IT BE THE PERCEPTION OF THE SAME SUN - (2578 2582)
COMMENTARY.
For you, the Mimamsaka, Cognitions are formless, and it is the external object that is with form. Hence what is seen in the water cannot be the form of the Cognition ; because forms are held to belong to external things only.-Nor is the Reflected Image held to be an entirely different thing; as in that case, it would not be a case of the perception of the Sun at all. Nor does the Sun itself enter the water, by virtue of which it could appear there (as the Reflected Image); because it remains in the regions of Akäsha If it be asserted that, it is through illusion that it appears in the water", - in that case, the Cognition would not have the Sun for its objective basis ; because the form within the water does not belong to the Sun.-From all this it follows that the form that belongs to the object (Sun) does not figure in the
