Argument
IPVV — V3-G ARGUMENT MAP (the kāryakāraṇatāvimarśa: causation, the knower's agency, and the svabhāvahetu)
MACHINE_DRAFT · 4 premises
Question. In the tṛtīyo vimarśa, the *relation* (sambandha) was shown to be the expansion of the action-power (kriyāśaktisphāra). Now Abhinava examines the second great relation: **cause and effect (kāryakāraṇatā)**. His thesis, announced at once: **the essence of cause-and-effect is nothing but the relation of agent and object of action (kartṛ-karmatva)** — i.e. causality is ultimately the conscious knower's agency. Against this he must (a) show the inert (jaḍa) has no real causal power, (b) prove the conscious alone is the agent, (c) handle the anumāna/svabhāvahetu, (d) co-opt the Buddhist and Sāṃkhya causal theories, and (e) show that even so the knower's agency requires the Lord.
Issue. **The question:** In the tṛtīyo vimarśa, the *relation* (sambandha) was shown to be the expansion of
the action-power (kriyāśaktisphāra). Now Abhinava examines the second great relation: **cause and
effect (kāryakāraṇatā)**. His thesis, announced at once: **the essence of cause-and-effect is nothing
but the relation of agent and object of action (kartṛ-karmatva)** — i.e. causality is ultimately the
conscious knower's agency. Against this he must (a) show the inert (jaḍa) has no real causal power,
(b) prove the conscious alone is the agent, (c) handle the anumāna/svabhāvahetu, (d) co-opt the
Buddhist and Sāṃkhya causal theories, and (e) show that even so the knower's agency requires the Lord.
Premises
Maṅgala + the 21-verse plan
"By the meld of the param-essence-unity, I remember Hara, the great cause of the whole, the
three-power-joined form…" The plan: kārikā 1 states the thesis (agent-object-ness is the essence of
cause-effect); 3 reject the inert's causality (2–4); 6 prove the conscious alone is the agent (5–10);
3 show the niyati-power must be used in the anumāna (from the consideration of the cause); 3 show the
Śākya's (Buddhist) causality rests on our way; 3 show the Kāpila's (Sāṃkhya) too; and 2 show that even
the conscious's agency, established, does not carry over to non-lordship — it requires the Lord.
Kārikā 1
[Full argument captured in the Ratié mining — the Sāṃkhya/Buddhist satkāryavāda: the inert seed
cannot endow the sprout with being; the effect is either existent or non-existent, and the "both/
neither" is self-contradictory; the non-existent cannot acquire existence ("the blue cannot become
yellow"); the existent needs no acquisition. Conclusion: causality is not a power of the inert.]
Kārikās 5–10 (lines 5679–5927) — the conscious alone is the agent
Kārikā 5: thus the one action is she, with-order, inner-outer standing. Kārikā 6: the outer of that
alone is the effect, which-inner-with-respect-to-which. Kārikā 7: the own alone is the cause, by that
he in the two-appearance-standing. Kārikā 8: thence alone in the sprout-even the wished cause is the
param-Lord. Kārikā 9: thus-indeed the potter, he, with-the-Lord-ness-alone-arrangement. Kārikā 10: of
the yogins-even, without-clay-seed, with-the-will-power-alone that [effect arises]. [The thread: the
effect's cause is ultimately consciousness — the potter creates the pot by his power; the yogin
creates without clay; so the inert seed/clay is not the true cause, the conscious is.]
Kārikā 11 + the svabhāvahetu (lines 5927–5966) — the own-nature reason
> The effect, the reason, or the nature — from that alone the origin-root-born.
The svabhāvahetu (own-nature reason) has two kinds: the clear-embryonic-cause-effect
(sphuṭagarbhita-kāryakāraṇabhāva, e.g. "it is fiery because smoky" — fire is the
Unresolved. 1. The exact scope of the "anumāna / niyatiśakti" three kārikās (the inference must presuppose the
niyati-power) — the relation to the fixative power is Abhinava's own; rendered per the text.
2. The śiṃśapā/tree example's precise force — the non-otherness of the two is the crux; rendered as
the entailment without real causal otherness.
Tension: PUSHING-IPVV
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