The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu PhilosophyMadhava
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The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy
Madhava
Philosophy, Hindu; Philosophy, Indic
_Pudgala_, "body," possesses touch, taste, and colour. Bodies are of
two kinds, atomic and compound. Atoms cannot be enjoyed;[72] the
compounds are the binary and other combinations. Atoms are produced by
the separation of these binary and other compounds, while these arise
from the conjunction of atoms. Compounds sometimes arise from
separation and conjunction [combined]; hence they are called
_pudgalas_, because they "fill" (_púr_), and "dissolve" (_gal_).
Although "time" is not properly an _astikáya_, because it does not
occupy many separate parts of space [as mentioned in the definition],
still it is a _dravya_ [or _tattva_], as the definition will hold;
"substance" (_dravya_) possesses "qualities and action."[73] Qualities
reside in substance but do not themselves possess qualities, as the
general qualities, knowledge, &c., of the _jíva_, form, &c., of the
body, and the power of causing progress, stationariness, and motion
into a place previously occupied, in the case respectively of "merit,"
"demerit," and _ákáśa_. "Action" (_paryáya_) has thus been defined;
the actions (_paryáyáḥ_) of a substance are, as has been said, its
existence, its production, its being what it is, its development, its
course to the end, as, _e.g._, in the _jíva_, the knowledge of
objects, as of a jar, &c., happiness, pain, &c.; in the _pudgala_, the
lump of clay, the jar, &c.; in merit and demerit, the special
functions of progress, &c. Thus there are six substances or _tattvas_
[_i.e._, the five above mentioned and "time"].
Others reckon the _tattvas_ as seven, as has been said--
"The _tattvas_ are _jíva_, _ajíva_, _ásrava_, _bandha_, _saṃvara_,
_nirjará_, and _moksha_." _Jíva_ and _ajíva_ have been already described.
_Ásrava_ is described as the movement of the soul called _yoga_,[74]
through its participation in the movement of its various bodies,
_audárika_, &c. As a door opening into the water is called _ásrava_,
because it causes the stream to descend through it,[75] so this _yoga_ is
called _ásrava_, because by it as by a pipe actions and their consequences
flow in upon the soul. Or, as a wet garment collects the dust brought to
it from every side by the wind, so the soul, wet with previous sins,
collects, by its manifold points of contact with the body, the actions
which are brought to it by _yoga_. Or as, when water is thrown on a heated
lump of iron, the iron absorbs the water altogether, so the _jíva_, heated
by previous sins, receives from every side the actions which are brought
by _yoga_. _Kasháya_ ("sin," "defilement") is so called because it "hurts"
(_kash_) the soul by leading it into evil states; it comprises anger,
pride, delusion, and lust. _Ásrava_ is twofold, as good or evil. Thus
abstaining from doing injury is a good _yoga_ of the body; speaking what
is true, measured, and profitable is a good _yoga_ of the speech.
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