Verse 1972

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

तुल्यापरक्षणोत्पादाद्यथा नित्यत्वविभ्रमः ।
अविच्छिन्नसजातीयग्रहे चेत्स्थूलविभ्रमः ॥ १९७२ ॥

tulyāparakṣaṇotpādādyathā nityatvavibhramaḥ |
avicchinnasajātīyagrahe cetsthūlavibhramaḥ || 1972 ||

“Just as in the case of the coming into existence of similar ‘moments’, there is an illusion of permanence,—so when there is an unbroken series of cognitions of similar atoms, there is an illusion of grossness.”—(1972)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

He has offered the following answer “In the case of sound and other things what are perceived are several similar ‘Moments’ coming into existence one after the other; and yet there is an illusion of there being a permanent entity;—in the same manner, in the case of Atoms, what are perceived simultaneously are so many homogeneous Atoms present in an unbroken chain, which gives rise to the mental delusion that what is perceived is a gross object.—Thus the Reason adduced above in Text 1968 is ‘inadmissible’.”—(1972)

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verses 1973-1979 next]