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II, 3, 7.
THE SOUL.
sensation, idea, thought, abstraction, sense of vitality, and attention arise each simultaneously with its predecessor. And a similar succession of cause and effect arises when each of the other five organs of sense is brought into play. [57] And so herein there is no such thing as soul (Vedagu) 2
7. The king said: 'Does thought-perception 3 arise wherever sight arises * ?'
Yes, O king, where the one is there is the other.' And which of the two arises first ?' * First sight, then thought.'
Then does the sight issue, as it were, a command to thought, saying: “Do you spring up there where I have?” or does thought issue command to sight, saying: “Where you spring up there will l.”'
'It is not so, great king. There is no intercourse between the one and the other.'
*Then how is it, Sir, that thought arises wherever sight does ?'
'Because of there being a sloping down, and because of there being a door, and because of there being a habit , and because of there being an association.'
How is that? Give me an illustration of mind arising where sight arises because of there being a sloping down.'
Now what do you think, great king? When it rains, where will the water go to ?'
· The last four are ketanâ, ekaggatâ, gîvitindriyam, and manasikâro; and in the Simhalese are simply repeated in their Simhalese form.
* This conclusion is all wrong in Hardy, pp. 457, 458. 3 Mano-viñnânam.
• Kakkhu-viññanam. 8 Kinnatta, which Hînati-kumburê renders purudu bewin. • Deve vassante: when the god rains.'
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