Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

SR No.: 007608
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 753
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 42 MB

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(0) SANKAYA DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL'.
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TEXT (292).
IF IT BE HELD THAT IT IS PRIMORDIAL MATTER THAT BESTOWS THE
FRUITS, IN ACOORDANCE WITH THE DESTRES OT THE SOUL ; AND THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO STANDS LIKE THAT BETWEEN THE LAME AND THE BLIND PERSONS",(then the answer is as given in the
following Text].-(292)
COMMENTARY. Though the Soul is not the door of deeds, yet it is Primordial Matter that presents to him things, in accordance with his desires, and then he enjoys these things. So that there is none of the incongruity that has been urged.
Question : -"Primordial Matter being insentient, how can it be the Doer of good and bad deeds, by virtue of which it brings about the fruits of deeds for the Soul according to his desires ?"
Answer: This relationship, etc.: just as the Blind man acts towards things, through his connoction with the man with eyes, -30 do the Cosmio Intellect and other divergent' things perform the functions of determining and the rest towards such effects as Merit, etc., through their contact with the Soul, which is sentient. This has been thus asserted—"The Soul serves the purpose of bringing about Perception (of Matter), and Prim. ordial Matter serves to bring about Liberation (of the Soul); the connection between these two this is like that between the Lame and the Blind ; and creation (evolution) proceeds from this connection " (Salchyakārika, 21).-(292)
The above argument is answered in the following
TEXT (293).
IF THAT IS SO, THEN HOW IS IT THAT EVEN WHEN THE DESIRE FOR THE DESIRED THING IS THERE, IT IS NOT FULFILLED? PRIMORDIAL MATTER CANNOT STAND IN NEED OF ANYTHING
EISE.-(293)
COMMENTARY.
If what is meant is that Primordial Matter brings to the Soul the desired fruit of even such acts as he has not done, then how is it that, at all times, on the desire appearing for anything, the desires of all men do not become fulflled ?
It might be argued that It does not becomo fulfilled because its cause. n the form of Merit, is not present".