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the manas. Manas may be an indispensable agent for the origination of knowledge, but, for that reason it should not be supposed that mind is the place in which the generated knowledge is located. Gotama writes ---“The mind is not the seat of knowledge ... on account of its being subject to an agent and owing to its incapacity to reap the fruits of another's deeds."'! The mind (manas) is not the seat of knowledge, desire, aversion, volition, pleasure and pain. The impressions of actions of an individual are left behind in the form of merit and demerit in accordance with which the nature of the body in the succeeding birth is determined. But in transmigration what passes on from one birth to the subsequent is not the manas but it is the soul. Hence knowledge, its effects in the forms of merit and demerit, recollection have to be located in the soul and not in the mind, not in the body.
Vidyabhushana conclusively states the whole position regarding knowledge and its location, in his cornmentary on the next sūtra of Gotama. He says that though knowledge is not an inseparable property of the soul it does reside in the soul and not in any other psychical apparatus like the mind, intellect, etc., .... He writes --"Knowledge is a quality which inheres in a substance. That substance is neither the body nor the sense nor the mind. It must, therefore, be the soul. The body cannot be
1 Vidyabhushana S. C. : Nyāya Sūtras of Gotama, Sūtra 116, p. 95.
2 Ibid. p. 95.
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