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The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s3.t7.28

The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c7.s3.t7.28

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c7.s3.t7.28

“[p. 579] If, finally, you set up a ‘presentation of inwardness’ (*ālaya-vijñānam*) as the basis of appearances, this can no more co-exist with your theory of non-duration than can the ‘presentation of outwardness’ (*pravṛtti-vijñānam*), and therefore cannot serve as the substratum of appearances. For unless we either admit a Continuous Substance, which binds past, present, and future together, or an overseer of all objects, an activity linking together remembrances—depending upon appearances conditioned by space, time, and cause—is impossible. If, however, the ‘idea of inwardness,’ implies a continuum, you have thereby given up your principle (of non-duration).”