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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
the 'Soul' as being non-existent; because when they have regarded the Soul as existent, if they regard it as non-existent, this would mean a com. plete volte face on their part.-(3488-3494)
Further, there may be repudiation of it either as being the source of suffering or as something else; even so there could be no cessation of the I-notion whose sole root lies in the notion of the Soul-This is what is pointed out in the following:
TEXT (3495)
THE NOTION 'I AM NOT' CANNOT BE RIGHT IT THE 'I REALLY EXISTS. OR ELSE, IT IS NOT TRUE THAT ONE WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH
MUST ATTAIN Nirvāna.-(3495)
COMENTARY.
• I am not-This idea that 'I am not cannot be right the I really exists', i.e. if the Soul exists.
Hence that your 'knower of Truth' attains Nirvūna cannot be true; because Liberation has been held to follow from the cessation of the 'I. notion', and so long as the 'Soul' is there as the object of that notion, there can be no cessation of the 'I-notion'; how then could there be Liberation - (3495)
The following Texts sum up the Author's position:
TEXTS (3496-3497).
THUS THEN, UNDER OTHER SYSTEMS, THERE IS JUST A LITTLE 'WELFARE (PROSPERITY) SECURED THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEN SIN'THE ATTAINMENT OF THE HIGHEST GOOD THERE IS NONE IN THE LEAST: AND THE REASON TOR THIS LIES IN THE FACT THAT ALL THESE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NOTION OF THE 'REAL EXISTENCE' (OF THE SOUL) AND HENCE THE ROOT OF THE 'AFFLICTIONS'
IS NOT REMOVED.-(3496-3497)
COMMENTARY.
Through the destruction of the Ten Sins'-These sins are-(1) Killing of life, (2) Taking what has not been given, (3) Indulgence in (sexual) desire, (4) Dishonest Behaviour, (5) Lying, (6) Backbiting, (7) Cruelty, (8) Incoherent Talking, (9) Malice or Doceitfulness, and (10) Wrong knowledge. Or they may be the following :-(1) Not saving others, (2) Not giving, (3) Not serving, (4) Lying, (6) Harsh words, (6) Injuring others, (7) Neglect of study, (8) Faithlessness, (9) Mercilessness, and (10) Undue Desire. The
