वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[sū. 2. 2. 18. 350 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 3.] continuous stream of cognitions Among them, the views of the Yogācāra and the Mādhyamika will be refuted later But in this section, the views of the realists, viz the Vaibhāṣikas and the Sautrāntikas, are being refuted together Thus, they speak of five groups,¹ viz colour, cognition, feeling, name and impression.² Among these, the colour-group consists in the four elements, like the earth and the rest, and the elemental in the form of the body, sense-organs, and sense-objects. Among these, the earth-atoms, possessed of colour, taste, smell and touch, and hard by nature, are aggregated into the form of the earth, the water-atoms, possessed of colour, taste and smell, and viscid by nature, are aggregated into the form of water; the fire-atoms, possessed of colour and touch, and hot by nature, are aggregated into the form of fire, likewise the air-atoms, possessed of touch and mobile by nature, are aggregated into the form of air; and the four elements, like the earth and the rest, are aggregated into the form of body, sense-organs and sense-objects In this way, these four kinds of momentary atoms are held to be the cause of the aggregation of the elements and the elemental The colour-group, consisting of the elements and the elemental and due to the atoms, is the external aggregate. The cognition-group consists in a stream of cognitions like the cognition of a pot, cognition of a piece of cloth, and so on, based on the internal cognition of the 'I', and subsisting uninterruptedly. This alone is the agent, the enjoyer and the soul, and from it alone all ordinary practical transactions proceed The feeling-group consists in pleasur- able or painful experiences. The name-group consists in the cognition of secondary marks, e.g. (in the cognition.) 'a cow possessed of auspiciousness', the cow is distinguished by the secondary mark of auspiciousness. The impression-group consists in the mental qualities of attachment, aversion, delusion, pride, malice, fear, grief, depression and so on. These last four kinds of groups are said to be the mind and the mental. Among these, the cognition-group is said to be the mind or the soul, others mental; and thus they are internally aggregated in such a way as to be the substratum of ordinary practical transactions This is the internal aggregate, due to the four groups, beginning with the cognition-group. The soul and the ether, other than the 1 Skandha. 2 Rūpa, vyñāna, vedanā, samjñā and samskāra.