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[To all this we reply:] The doctrine of no-soul might mean either." the conviction that there exists no soul at all of the conviction that :: soul is a momentary entity; but on consideration neither of the alterna tives seems to be logically tenable.
सर्वथैवात्मनोऽभावे सर्वा चिन्ता निरर्थका । सति धर्मिणि धर्मा यच्चिन्त्यन्ते नीतिमद्वचः ॥४६४॥ sarvathaivātmano'bhave sarva cintā nirarthakā /
sali dharmini dharmā j'ac cinlyante nītimadvacah 11464|| Thus if there exists no soul at all deliberation (about. matters reli. gious, that is, about bondage, release etc.) prores meaningless, for it is the verdict of the experts on logic that you can deliberate about cer.. tain properties only if there exists sometbing which is the owner (i. e. the sobstratum) of these properties (and soul certainly is the owner of properties like boodage, release etc.)
नैरात्म्यदर्शनं कस्य को वाऽस्य प्रतिपादकः। . एकान्ततुच्छतायां हि प्रतिपाद्यस्तथेह कः ॥४६५॥ nairaimyadarśanan kasya ko vā'sya pratipādakaḥ /
ekantatucchatayam hi pratipadyas tatheh kah //465//When soul is an utter dovedtity who it is that realizes the correct. ness of the doctrine of no-soul, who it is that propounds this doctrine, and who it is that is taught this doctrine ?
.. कुमारीसुतजन्मादिस्वप्नबुद्धिसमोदिता ।
भ्रान्तिः सर्वेयमिति चेन्ननु सा धर्म' एव हि ॥४६६॥ kumārīsutajanmadista pnabuddhisamodita /
bhrāntiḥ sarteyam ili cen nanu să dharma eva hi 1/46611 It might be said that all this (i. e, the propounding, teaching etc. of the doctrine of no-soul) is an illusion like the virgin's dream-experience of child-birth; to this we reply that even an illusion is buta property (which will necessarily require a substratum in the forni of " a soul).
कुमार्या भाव एवेह येदेतदुपपद्यते । वन्ध्यापुत्रस्य लोकेऽस्मिन्न जातु स्वप्नदर्शनम् ॥४६॥
kumāryā bhūra eveha yad clad upapadyate /
___randhyaputrasya loke'smin nmjaltu svapnadasanam 1146711 1. A reads - साऽधर्म
