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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TATTVASANGBAHA : CHAPTER IX.
has come about, would be absolutely useless. Because, what is it that is called the operation of the Cause? It is that immediately after which the Effect socures its appearance; and as a matter of fact, the Effect appears iminudiatoly after the existence of the Cause; hence it is this existence itself wlich may be onlled the operation. What is the need of assuming any
operation' other than this 'birth' (coming into existence of the Causa ? -(520)
"If this is so, thon, how is it that people speak of the Effect has need of the Cause', the Cause operates on the Etreet'?" Anstoer
TEXT (521) IT IS THE NECESSARY CONDITION OF IMMEDIATE SEQUENCE THAT IS CALLED 'NEED'; AND IN THE APPEARANCE OF THR EFFECT, THE ONLY OPERATION OF THE CAUSE IN ALL CASES
IS ITS EXISTENCE ':-(521)
COMMENTARY. The need that the Dffec has of the Cause consists only in the fact of its coming into existence immodiately after the latter; and of the Cause also, the only operation' towards the bringing about of the Effect is that it is always in existence at the time of the appearance of the Effec.-(521)
Further, you have to admit that the causal character' of an operation' -or of a Thing with that operation, towards a particular Effect consiste entirely in the fact of the latter coming into existence only when the former is in existence ; in fact, for the determining of the causal relation between a Cause and its Effect thore is no ground except positive and negative concomitance. Such being the case, why is not the causal character attributed to the Thing itself (and not to its action or operation) - specially as it cannot be said that the positive and negative concomitance of the Effect with the Thing itself is not well known. Hence it is far better to regard the Thing itself as the Cause, with which the positive and negative concomitance of the Effect is well recognised.--This is what is explained in the following
TEXT (522). As A MATTER OF FACT, THE Operation ALSO IS ASSUMED TO BE THE CAUSE ONLY ON THE BASIS OF THE FACT THAT THE EFFBOT APPNARS
WHEN THE OPERATION IS THERE; IT IS FAR BETTER, THEN, THAT THE THING ITSELF TO WHICH THAT OPERATION BELONGS SHOULD BE REGARDED
AS THE CAUSE.-(522)
COMMENTARY. • Assumed ',-.e. the operation', which has been assumed by you to be of the nature of neither the Cause nor the Effect, nor both.