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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXV.
TEXT (3007).
IP VALIDITY IS ADMITTED IN SOME CASES, EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO ABSENCE OF THE SUBLATING COGNITION, THEN WHY SHOULD THERE BE HOSTILITY AGAINST THE INITIAL
COGNITION !-(3007)
COMMENTARY.
If, in order to avoid Infinite Regress, it be held that in some cases there is validity, even though the sublating Cognition is not absont--then, in the case of the initial Cognition also, there need bo no dependence upon the absence of sublation; and in this way, all Cognitions would be equally valid(3007)
It has been argued (by the Mimāmsaka) under Text 2867, that-"It may be that there too, there may be need for another sublating Cognition in certain cases, where suspicion might be aroused in the mind of the person by the previous Cognition; but that suspicion ceases after very little effort”.
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (2008-2009).
IF THE SUBLATING COGNITION SETS ASIDE THE PRECEDING COGNITION, BECAUSE ITS VALIDITY IS SELF-SUFFICIENT, WHY SHOULD THERE ARISE ANY SUSPICION REGARDING IT? WHAT COULD BE SUS. PEOTED WOULD BE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANOTHER SUBLATING COGNITION WITH SELF-SUFFICIENT VALIDITY ; BUT SUCH A SUSPICION WOULD BE SELF-CONTRADICTORY, AND COULD NEVER ARISE IN REGARD TO WHAT HAS
BEEN DULY ASCERTAINED, (3008-3009)
COMMENTARY.
If the sublating Cognition is one of which the validity is not dependent upon anything else,-then, how could there arise any suspicion regarding its sublation,-in viow of which it is said that there may be need for another sublating Oognition'? Hence there is clear self-contradiction-involved in the statements that 'the validity of the sublating Oognition is self-suffi. cient' and that its sublation is suspected':-Because what is meant by 'independence', 'self-sufficiency', is that it has become an object of firm conviction; and as a matter of fact, where there is firm conviction, any suspicion regarding it is absolutely impossible. Because as between certainty' and 'uncertainty', one always sets aside the other; and suspicion', as envisaging both ends, operates in the manner of 'uncertainty', 'doubt'. --(3008-3009)
