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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXTS (3421-3424).
OR, THOSE THAT SUBSIST IN A LASTING SUBSTRATUM, HAVING COME
ABOUT IN IT SOMEHOW, AND—SO LONG AS THERE IS NO FORCE TO THE CONTRARY, THEY DO NOT NEED ANY FURTHER EFFORT TOWARDS BRINGING THEM ABOUT AGAIN, THESE, BY THE EXCELLENCE OF THE TREATMENT THEY RECEIVE, REACH THE HIGHEST STAGE OF PERFECTION ;-AS FOR EXAMPLE, THE PURIFICATION OF GOLD - KNOWLEDGE, MEROY AND SUCH QUALITIES ARE ALL OF THE SAID KIND; SO THAT WHEN THESE HAVE REACHED THE HIGHEST STATE OF PERFECTION, THERE IS BRILLIANT OMNISCIENCE.NOR CAN THIS REASON BE HELD TO BE FALLIBLE (FALSE) IN VIEW OF THE TWO CASES OY Jumping and Water heating ; BECAUSE JUMPING FOLLOWS NOT YROM THE JUMPING ITSELF, BUT FROM STRENGTH AND EFFORT.(3421-3424)
COMMENTARY.
Or, if there are things that subsist in a lasting substratum, and have had some peculiarity produced in them somehow,--if there is no force to the contrary,--they do not stand in need of further effort for their production; and if they receive excellent treatment, they proceed to the highest stage of perfection; as is found in the case of the purification of Gold and such things; -Knowledge, Mercy and such things (i.e. those under discussion) have the character just described-hence this is a Reason based upon the nature of things.
Nor can this Reason be said to be fallible, in view of the cases of Jumping and Water heating'; i.e. by reason of the qualifications that have been added in the above statement of the Reason. Neither Jumping nor Water-heating is produced only once; nor do they not need another effort for producing them again; nor do they subsist in a lasting substratum.
Or, it may be said that there is no 'fallibility in the Premiss because of the further qualification that 'it should proceed from a seed of the same kind' (see Text 3414).This is what is pointed out by the words-Jumping follows, not from the jumping itself, etc. etc. ', - i.e. the Jumping is not produced by the Jumping,
Question: "From what then, does it proceed?"
Answer Jumping proceeds from strength and effort' i.e. when there is strength, and also effort, then there comes Jumping; it does not come when there is Jumping itself. These two-Strength and Effort-have their capa. cities restricted and fixed; consequently, the Jumping also has its character restricted and fixed.
The following might be urged "If Jumping proceeds from Strength and Effort, not from Jumping itself, then, the Jumping-capacity that comes to man after practice, should be his even prior to that practice".
