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"THE REVEALED WORD."
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bring about successive remembrances relating to themselves, indirectly in due order.
Consequently, these Remembrances come to be regarded as effects' in relation to the cognitions appearing in the Speaker's chain', which have given rise to the Remembrances; while in relation to the cognitions appearing in the Hearer's 'chain', they come to be regarded as the 'Cause'. Herein lies their order of sequence';- nowhere else. Thus, as the character of the Letters in every word, is variable, sometimes appearing as causes and sometimes as effects, it is only right that in the case of such similar words as * sara' and 'rasa', the resultant cognitions should be different. But this cannot be right if the Letters and words are eternal; as eternal things retain the same form at all times. Nor in their case can any order of sequence be regarded as something different from themselves. Even if it were something different, there would be no relationship between them; this is what is really meant.
The meaning of the words of the Text is now explained When one Letter-sound is produced !--such is the construction. In the case of such words as 'sadā' and 'samaya', there is the vowel 'a' after '8',--there is desire to utter this arising from the desire to utters'; hence this is another desire '-What is meant is as follows:- In the Speaker's Chain', there is one'desire to utter' following from another, and so on; this desire is followed by the Letter-Sound produced,--this Sound brings about the Remembrance ; such is the connection with what follows in the text later on.
Having thus described the fact of the Letters being effects of the series of desires to speak in the Speaker's Chain', the author proceeds to point out the fact of its being the cause of the cognitions appearing in the Hearer's Chain- The former is heard, etc. etc. - Tasya' refers to ' yah' in the previous line its hearing is produced, it is heard immediately without anything intervening.
Having thus shown that it is the cause of the Hearer's Cognition, the author now proceeds to show that it is the cause of Remembrance.-Not heard very quickly! --quick hearing being incapable of being produced by Remembrance. The latter -i.e. the later "Letter'.- Remembrances - of the previous Letters in the chain. With the aid'-with the help of it, it arouses the Remembrance with regard to itself ;- the cognitions leading up to, and apprehending, it', -it'stands for the Letter ;-this is to be treated as a Copulative Compound; or even as a Tatpuruşa or Karmadhāraya; and in relation to these cognitions, these are effects'; but they are causes' in relation to the subsequent cognitions and remembrances.
Having thus discarded the idea of the 'order' being something different (from the Letters or Words), the Author proceeds next to discard the view of the Grammarians that the 'word' that is expressive is of the nature of a * Sphota', which is something entirely different from the Latter-sounds, by the sentence beginning with Consequently':-(2699-2704)
[It has to be noted that the commentary is very incomplete in the printed text; and much of the translation there is based upon mere surmise.]
