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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
order to show this, the Author proceeds to point out the Invariablo Con. comitance of the said characters (with Omniscience)
TEXTS (3441-3443).
WHATEVER THINGS ARE CONCEIVED BECOME CLEARLY MANIFEST, AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCEPTION ; AS IS FOUND IN THE CASE OF THE OBJECTS OF DESIRE ;-ALL THINGS ARE CONCEIVED BY GREAT SAGES, FOR A LONG TIME AND SEVERAL TIMES, IN THEIR REAL YORM, AS Vord', 'NO-SOUL' AND SO PORTH. THAT THE "VOID', 'No-SOUL' AND THE REST ARE THE real TORMS HAS BEEN PROVED BEFORE. HENCE AS ARISING OUT OF THE CONCEPTION OF REALLY EXISTENT THINGS, THE SAID CONCEPTION HAS BEEN RIGHTLY BEGARDED AS RIGHT AND
VALID.-(3441-3443)
COMMENTARY
The principal argument to be expounded later on, may be formulated thus:- Things that are possessed of the characters of 'being entity', 'being cognisable' and so forth are those that become clearly manifest in a single cognition which forms the highest stage of conception;e.g. the loved woman, the son and the thief who are conceived of by men who are obsessed by the feelings of love, etc., all things are possessed of the said characters of "being entity' and the rest:-hence this is a Reason based upon the nature of things.-The Reason adduced here cannot be said to be 'Inconclusive'; because whatever thing, real or unreal, is conceived of, is always found to bring about, at the culmination of the conception, the clear cognition of that thing; e.g. the man in love has the clear cognition of the woman he loves; all things are conceived of in their real form, for a long time, by persons who are absorbed in meroy:---hence this is a Reason based on the nature of things.
This shows that Conception is invariably concomitant with the resultant clear cognition.
Question. The clear cognition of things is independent of other things; how is it known that the 'Void', 'No-Soul' and the rest constitute the real form of things?"
Answer -That the Void, No-Soul and the rest, etc. eto.'-(3441-3443)
The Author now proceeds to show that the cognition of the 'Void' and the rest is vouched for by Perception itself:
