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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
restrict the scope of cognitions. When, therefore, that Disability has been removed, how could there be any restriction upon the scope of Cognitions ?
With this opinion in view, the Author makes the following statement:
TEXTS (3390-3392).
OR, ALL COGNITION, WHEN PURE, WOULD, AS A RULE, APPREHEND ALL
THINGS; THOUGH IN A CERTAIN CASE, THERE MAY BE SOME PECULIARITY IN THE RESULTANT OF THE COGNITION, DUE TO PARTICULAR CAUSES. FOR INSTANCE, THE Amalaki IS FOUND TO YIELD A SMALLER FRUIT; BECAUSE THE AMALAKI GROWING IN THE DESERT HAS BEEN FOUND TO YIELD A SMALL FRUIT, IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY FOLLOW THAT IT WILL ALWAYS, IN OTHER PLACES ALSO, PRODUCE FRUITS OF THE SAME SMALL SIZE. SIMILARLY, THERE IS THE ASSERTION THAT SERPENTS HEAR THROUGH THEIR EYES. IN FACT, THE CAPACITIES OF ACTION BELONGING TO ALL THINGS ARE WONDERFUL AND ANYTHING MIGHT BE POSSIBLE FOR THEM.(3390-3392)
COMMENTARY.
The nature of things is found to vary and become restricted under the influence of a variety of causes; it is not right therefore to deduce that a certain thing will always retain the same character that has been perceived in it once; e.g. on seeing that the Amalaki fruits growing in deserts are very small in size, no sane man can conclude that in all places, -oven though there may be diverse causes operating.--they would be the same. Hence it is quite pos. sible that even through the Eye,-as improved by the practice of Yoga,-- man may become able to see all things. Hence there can bo nothing incongruous in this possibility.-(3390-3392)
It has been argued by the other party, under Text 3159, that "The perception of certain things through certain causes in the past was exactly as it is found to appear at the present time".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3393).
SUCH AN ASSERTION CAN SOUND WELL ONLY WHEN PROCEEDING FROM ONE WHO HAS THE APPREHENSION OF ALL THINGS AT ALL THE THREE POINTS OF TIME, AS RESTRICTED IN THEIR
CAPACITY.-(3393)
COMMENTARY
With their capacities restricted'-construe thus appear as restricted in the desired manner'-(3393)
to whom all things
