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> INTRODUCTION TO

> COMMENTARY ON THE PERCEPTION OF TRUTH

> (SAT-DARSHANA BHASHYA) (Cont'd)

>

> I.

> ON NON-DUALITY

>

That clay is the substance of the pot is the substantial or the primal

truth. The form assumed by the substance is the formal truth. Since form

depends upon substance and substance refers to the essential character of

the thing, the one is the substantial and primary truth, and the other is

the formal or attributive and secondary truth of the same, especially in

view of the fact that the same thing is apprehended differently by the

different sense organs. But, the understanding of the form and other

aspects of substance as distinct and apart from substance itself is

entirely dependent on sense-mind and intelligence and its development.

Thus, the distinct apprehension of these two aspects, the substantial and

the formal, not only does not lead to error, but there is a great gain in

it, for then the synthetic truth is apprehended integrally, or in its

entirety.

 

Similarly, dealing with the subject of the triune existence - God, World and

Soul - we are to

recognize that the sole Reality, Brahman, (the Absolute) presents two aspects,

the substantial and

the formal. The Absolute, the one existence, becomes the Lord, in relation to

its own modes of

being as world and soul, as it is the substance and support and directing

intelligence of its own

formation in the shape of World and Soul. It is the Absolute (Brahman) that is

really present in

and signified by the various modes of its own existence, by the numberless

selves and the

countless worlds; these are the signifying factors and their Lord is the One

signified in all of

them.

 

 

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