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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXT (2593).
THE REALITY OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE REFLECTED IMAGE HAS ALREADY
BEEN DISCARDED BEFORE ; BECAUSE TWO CORPOREAL MATERIAL OBJECTS CANNOT EXIST TOGETHER, BECAUSE THEY ARE
MUTUALLY OBSTRUCTIVE.-(2593)
COMMENTARY.
The idea of the Reflected Image being an entity has been rejected before ; where it has been shown that one corporeal object cannot occupy the same place as another and so forth.-(2593)
Granting that the Reflected Image is a real entity; even so several such images can figure in the same Cognition this is what is shown in the following
TEXT (2594).
Evex IF THE REFLECTED IMAGE EXISTS IN SEVERAL PLACES, IT VARIES REGARDING ITS LARGENESS, SMALLNESS AND SO FORTH; HENCE
IT CANNOT BE ONE AND THE SAME.—(2594)
COMMENTARY
And so forth includes length, etc.
It might be argued that—"Even though there is diversity of largeness and the rest, yet in some way, on account of all being blus, etc., they might figure in the same cognition ".
But even so, that does not prove real one-ness; the one-ness might be assumed; but as regards that, your argument would be futile (as that is admitted by us also).
If the one-ness were real, even when the Images are perceived in different places, etc.,--then there may be one-ness between the Brahmana and the Chandala, on the ground of both being men there would be one-ness between your mother and your wife, on the ground of both being women,-one-ness also between your mouth and the lower orifice, on the ground of both being made up of Earth. In fact, the whole universe would be one, on the ground of everything being a Entity; and in that case the contingency of the simul. taneous birth and death of things would become irresistible.-(2594)
The following has been urged in the Bhäsya (of Shabara) "It might be urged that it is not possible for one and the same thing to be seen simul. taneously at several places; but the foolish man who says this should look at the sun, where one and the same sun is seen in several places..... It might be that its exact position is not ascertained on account of remoteness; hence there is an illusion. The same may be said in regard to the Word.
