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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXT (3622)
THE SIMULTANEOUS APPRERENSION BY ONE AND THE SAME COGNITION OF MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY THINGS, LIKE THE PURE AND THE
IMPURE AND SO FORTH,HAS ACTUALLY BEEN FOUND. BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT INCOMPATIBLE WITH
Cognition.-(3622)
COMMENTARY.
Even though there are some things that are mutually incompatible, yet, they are quite compatible with the Cognition; as is clear from the fact that several mutually incompatible things are actually perceived at one and the same time.-(3622)
The same idea is further clarified :
TEXTS (3623-3624).
IN THE CASE OF THINGS THAT ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE BY THEIR NATURE, OR IN THOSE THAT CAN NEVER COEXIST, THERE MAY BE incompatibility; BUT THERE IS NO incompatibility IN BOTH FIGURING IN THE ONE AND THE SAME COGNITION; BECAUSE THERE IS PERORPTION THROUGH THE EYE OY SUCH CONTRARIES As (a) THE PURE AND THE IMPURE THINGS, (6) THE SERPENT AND THE PEACOCK AND SO
FORTH.—(3623-3624)
COMMENTARY.
Incompatibility among things is of two kinds(1) mutual exclusiveness, and (2) non-coexistence. Those things that are mutually exclusive, their unification is clearly incompatible; those again that are non-coexistent, their coexistence is incompatible. But by figuring in the same cognition, things do not become either unified or coezistent. Hence there is no incompatibility in their figuring in the same cognition. In fact, it is actually seen that even incompatible things figure in the same cógnition; for instance, the Pure and the Impure things, which are mutually exclusive, and the Serpent and the Peacock, which can never live together,-are perceived, through the Eye, at one and the same time. And so forth includes such pair of opposites as Light and Shade and the rest.---(3623-3624)
Says tho Opponent "If then, there is nothing incompatible in oon. trarios figuring in the same cognition, then it should be possible for Pleasure and Pain, or Love and Hate, to figure in the same cognition",
The answer to this is as follows:
