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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
Question "How is the second qualification (being brought about somehow, under Text 3421) known to exist ?" Answers
TEXT (3434). AS THE YLOW OF QUALITIES GOES ON APPEARING IN THE CHAIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS', SO IT GOES ON BECOMING MORE AND
MORE LUMINOUS.-(3434)
COMMENTARY.
"How is this also known ?”
Question Answer:
TEXT (3435).
THIS CONSCIOUSNESS' IS OF THE SAME NATURE AS THE 'PERCEPTION OF TRUTH', AND HENCE IT IS LUMINOUS, BY ITS VERY NATURE; BECAUSE IMPURITIES ARE ALL HELD TO BE ADVENTI
TIOUS.-(3435)
COMMENTARY.
All this has been explained by us already,--that all these, Wisdom, Mercy and the rest, by their very nature, are of the same essence as the Perception of Truth; and as such they constitute the nature of Consciousness'. It thus becomes established that, as these Wisdom, etc. are of the very essence of Consciousness when they have been once brought about, they continue to function automatically.-(3435)
Question "How is it known that the second qualification, which is of the same essence as the Perception of Truth', belongs to Consciousness ?" Answer:
TEXTS (3436-3437).
LY CONSCIOUSNESS WERE RESTRICTED TO THE COGNITION OF SOMETHING APART FROM ITSELF, THES, AS IT ITSELF WOULD NOT BE COGNISED, THERE COULD BE NO COGNITION OF THINGS. CONSEQUENTLY CONSCIOUSNESS HAS TO BE REGARDED AS ESSENTIALLY 'SELF-COGNISED', SPECIALLY BECAUSE IT IS ILLUMINA TIVE. HENCE THIS CONSCIOUSNESS REMAINS AS SOMETHING FREE FROM ALL IMPOSITION
(3436-3437)
COMMENTARY.
Primarily, the most important form of Consciousness consists in selfcognition this has to be admitted by all parties. Otherwise, if Consciousness
