Argument
IPVV — V2-G ARGUMENT MAP (the pañcamo vimarśa: the īśvarādvaya — the Lord manifests from within, kārikā 7)
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Question. The Buddhist's external object (whole or atom) has been refuted (V2-F, the shadow/sun, the avayavin, the paramāṇu). But the objector asks: "you established the external by the appearance-order-variety as the cause; so how is it un-established now?" Abhinavagupta answers with the positive īśvarādvaya thesis: the external is not needed, because the Lord manifests the whole object-mass from within himself, by his will, like a yogin, without any external material cause.
Issue. **The question:** The Buddhist's external object (whole or atom) has been refuted (V2-F, the
shadow/sun, the avayavin, the paramāṇu). But the objector asks: "you established the external by the
appearance-order-variety as the cause; so how is it un-established now?" Abhinavagupta answers with the
positive īśvarādvaya thesis: the external is not needed, because the Lord manifests the whole
object-mass from within himself, by his will, like a yogin, without any external material cause.
Premises
The avayavin/paramāṇu refutation
The whole (avayavin) is refuted by the shadow/sun argument: the jar has shadow on one side, sun on the
other, the middle covered, the two sides uncovered — so the part-holder body, resting on such
contradictory parts, cannot simultaneously bear the shadow and be sun-joined and covered and not-covered.
The raktādi (the colored) are marked by the covering: in a variegated thread, one part red, another
not-red, another black, another yellow. Hence the real-thing's pervader — the being-free-of-
contradictory-dharma-connection — its opposite (the contradictory-dharma-connection) being perceived,
the whole's real-ness is negated. The same for the atom (the paramāṇu): the middle atom, with two atoms,
would have the sun-contact on one side and not on the other, and the middle's covering by both —
Kārikā 7 (lines 4445–4484) — the Lord manifests from within
> The consciousness-self alone, indeed, the God, the inner-standing, by the will, outward — like a
> yogin, without the material-cause, the object-mass, he would manifest.
The consciousness-form is the locus of the object-establishment (accepted by all); by the synthesis-
power it is one; its lordship (aiśvarya) — the God-ness — is the freedom of joining-and-separating the
appearances (established). The manifestation-identity of the objects is said at length. Hence the
inner-containing-world-form (antargatavaiśvarūpya) is from that lordship. With it, there must be the
will (icchā), of the un-thwarted-freedom-marker. By the will, the creation is seen in the dream and the
construction (the jar without the clay-cause-lineage). The objection: "then the jar is unreal" — let it
be so; still the
Unresolved. 1. The Bhaṭṭadivākavatsa verse — cited; the exact application preserved.
2. The "cittattvaiva sarvatra nirmātṛ" (the consciousness-tattva alone, everywhere, is the creator) —
the crux; preserved.
Tension: IPVV-recognition-formulations-vs-mepit
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