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Nyāya Sūtras 295.2

Nyāyabhāṣya 295.2

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295.2

asaṅkhyeyeṣu jñānakāriteṣu saṃskāreṣu smṛtihetuṣv ātmasamaveteṣv ātmamanasoś ca sannikarṣe samāne smṛtihetau sati na kāraṇasyāyaugapadyam astīti yugapat smṛtayaḥ prādurbhaveyuḥ yadi buddhir ātmaguṇaḥ syād iti/ tatra kaścit sannikarṣasyāyaugapadyam upapādayiṣyann āha ---

If cognition were a quality of the self, then, since countless memory-causing latent impressions produced by cognitions inhere in the self, and since the contact between the self and the mind is identical as a cause of memory, there would be no non-simultaneity of the cause, and memories would arise simultaneously. In this regard, someone seeking to establish the non-simultaneity of contact says:

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