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Updated: May 29, 2025
These objections apply to the samavaya whether it be viewed as eternal or non-eternal. The next Sutra urges a further objection against it if viewed as eternal. The samavaya is a relation, and if that relation is eternal that to which the relation belongs must also be eternal, so that we would arrive at the unacceptable conclusion that the world is eternal.
And because owing to the acknowledgment of samavaya, there results a regressus in infinitum from equality. The Vaiseshika doctrine is further untenable on account of the acknowledgment of samavaya. Why so?
Because the samavaya also, like part, quality, and generic characteristics, requires something else to establish it, and that something else again requires some further thing to establish it from which there arises an infinite regress. To explain. Nor is it a legitimate proceeding to postulate an unseen entity such as the samavaya is, and then to assume for it such and such an essential nature.
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