gauṇyasambhavāt śabdācca ..2.3.3..

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SUTRA II. 3. 3.

गौण्यसम्भवात् शब्दाच्च ॥२.३.३॥

gauṇyasambhavāt śabdācca ..2.3.3..

… Gauni, figurative. …. Asambhavat, because of the impossibility. … Shabdat, because of the Scripture. Cha, and.

3. Creation of Ether is figurative only, because, it is impossible to create it and because of the text. — 221.

COMMENTARY

It is not possible to imagine the origin of Space or Ether. The great philosophers like Kanada and the rest have fully shown that Space cannot be created, but is eternal. The origin which the Taittiriya text mentions is figurative only, as we find people say «make space» or «the space is made». It is impossible to make space, for it is formless and all-pervading. If Ether was also a product, what is its cause? There cannot be an effect without a cause. Moreover, the express text of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad shows that Akasha has no origin. It says «Vayu and Antariksha (Space) — both are immortal». (Br. Up., II., 3, Verses 2, 3).

Thus from this text of the Brihadaranyaka, we learn that Space has no origin.

(The doubt raised in this Sutra will be answered in the Sutra after the next). An objector may say that the word «Sambhuta» is used in the Taittiriya Upanishad, and it has the definite meaning of «born» or «produced».‘ In the case of Fire and the rest, mentioned in that text, the word «produced» is taken in its literal sense. How do you interpret the same word, used in the same passage, in a figurative sense? The rule of interpretation is that if a word is used in the same passage several times, it must be explained everywhere in the same sense, and not in its literal sense in one place, and in its figurative sense in another. This objection is thus answered by the Purvapakshin.

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