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RELATION BETWEEN ACTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS.
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TEXT (500).
"IN THIS SAME MANNER IT MAY BE SHOWN THAT, IF ALL THINGS ARE IN 'PERPETUAL FLUX', REMEMBRANCE AND SUCH OTHER PHENOMENA WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE, AS THERE WOULD BE NO SINGLE SUBSTRATUM (UNDER THAT
TIIBORY)."-(500)
COMMENTARY.
As any single Agent would be impossible, it should be understood that there would be no possibility of any such phenomena as the following: - Remembrance, well-ascertained cognition, seeking for a thing hidden by oneself and so forth. Because in all these, the substratum being different, there would be incongruities; e.g, wheti Chaitra is the original apprehender, doubter, lider and seeker.-Maitra could not be the rememberer, the ascer. tainer, seeker, and so forth.-(500)
With the following Text, the Author proceeds to answor the above criticisms (levelled against the Doctrine of Perpetual Flu) :
TEXT (501)
WE PROCEED TO ANSWER THE ABOVE CRITICISMS AS FOLLOWS THINGS BEING WITHOUT SOUL, IN REFERENCE TO THOSE ALSO, TIE RELATION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT BEING THERE, ALL THE SAID NOTIONS BECOME ESTABLISHED
WITHOUT ANY DIFFICULTY.—(501)
COMMENTARY.
Even when things are regarded as being without Soul', all such notions as those relating to the Relation between Acts and their Results' and so forth, are based upon the relation of Cause and Effect'; so that when the relation of Cause and Effect is there, all those notions become established and there is no incongruity at any point.-(501)
Says the Opponent-"This definite Law of Cause and Effect itself is not possible without a Soul'."
The answer is provided in the following
