_  854  — 
Vasubandhu.  Now  I  should  like  to  know  to  what  place  must  I  dis- 
patch my  memory,  since  it  is  supposed  that  I  am  the  master  of  it. 
Vatsiputnya.  You  must  direct  it  towards  the  remembered  object. 
Vasubandhu.  What  for  shall  I  direct  my  memory? 
Vatsiputnya .  In  order  to  remember. 
Vasubandhu.  Hallo !  I  must  employ  the  very  thing  I  already  possess 
in  order  to  get  it!  Indeed  that  is  well  spoken!  Great  is  the  merit  (of  such 
discoveries)!  And  then  I  should  like  to  know,  in  what  sense  memory  is  to 
be  influenced :  in  the  sense  of  its  being  produced,  or  in  the  sense  of  its  being 
dispatched,  (like  a  servant)? 
Vatsiputnya.  In  the  sense  of  production,  since  memory  cannot  move 
(like  a  servant). 
Vasubandhu.  In  that  case  the  proprietor  is  simply  the  cause  and  the  pro- 
perty will  simply  be  its  effect.  The  cause  has  a  rule  over  the  effect,  and  this 
rule  belougs  to  the  cause  (only  in  the  sense  of  its  producing)  a  result.  Me- 
mory is  the  property  of  something  which  is  its  own  cause.  As  to  the  name 
of  an  owner  given  to  the  united  elements  of  Caitra  with  respect  to  those  of 
the  cow,  this  name  has  been  given  only  because  it  has  been  observed  that 
there  exists  a  relation  of  cause  to  effect  between  him  and  the  movements  and 
other  changes  in  the  cow,  but  there  is  no  real  unity  whatsoever  neither  in 
Caitra  nor  in  the  cow.  Consequently  there  is  in  this  case  no  other  pro- 
prietorship than  a  relation  of  cause  to  effect.  The  same  argument  may  be 
applied  to  the'questions  «who  is  it  that  perceives  ?»,  «whom  does  perception 
belong  to?»  and  other  similar  questions:  (who  feels,  who  has  notions,  who  acts 
etc.?)  The  difference  consists  in  the  fact  that  (instead  of  the  described  state 
of  mind  producing  memory),  the  corresponding  conditions  for  a  perception 
are:  activity  of  the  senses,  presence  of  the  object  and  aroused  attention. 
