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.