Nyāya Sūtras 220
Nyāyabhāṣya 220
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220.2
itaś ca nitya ātmā ---
For this reason too the self is eternal:
220.3
pretyāhārābhyāsakṛtāt stanyābhilāṣāt ||
NyS 3.1.21: Because of the desire for mother’s milk, which is produced by the practice of taking food in a past life.
220.4
jātamātrasya vatsasya pravṛttiliṅgaḥ stanyābhilāṣo gṛhyate/ sa ca nāntareṇāhārābhyāsam/ kayā yuktyā? dṛśyate hi śarīriṇāṃ kṣudhā pīḍyamānānām āhārābhyāsakṛtāt smaraṇānubandhād āhārābhilāṣaḥ/ na ca pūrvaśarīrābhyāsam antareṇāsau jātamātrasyopapadyate/
In a newborn calf, the desire for mother’s milk is apprehended, having activity as its mark. And that does not occur without the practice of taking food. By what reasoning? For embodied beings afflicted by hunger are observed to have a desire for food arising from the continuity of recollection produced by the practice of taking food. And that cannot occur in a newborn without practice in a previous body.
220.5
tenānumīyate bhūtapūrvaṃ śarīraṃ yatrānenāhāro 'bhyasta iti/ sa khalv ayam ātmā pūrvaśarīrāt pretya śarīrāntaram āpannaḥ kṣutpīḍitaḥ pūrvābhyastam āhāram anusmaran stanyam abhilaṣati/ tasmān na dehabhedād ātmā bhidyate bhavaty evorddhvaṃ dehabhedād iti//21//
By this it is inferred that there was a previous body in which food was practiced by this [self]. Having departed from the previous body and entered another body, this very self, afflicted by hunger, remembering the previously practiced food, desires mother’s milk. Therefore, the self is not destroyed by the destruction of the body; it indeed exists after the destruction of the body.
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