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## Padma Purana
**Verse 185:** What is equal to omniscience in opposition to eloquence? If there is a possibility of omniscience, then the speaker would be even more eloquent.
**Verse 186:** What does one who does not know speak? He is a fool with a confused mind. Without the absence of difference and non-difference, there would be no means of knowing.
**Verse 187:** Our view is that just as the impurities of gold and other metals are completely destroyed, so too are ignorance and the impurities of attachment, aversion, etc., destroyed in a person due to a cause. The one in whom they are destroyed is called omniscient.
**Verse 188:** According to our doctrine, the qualities (dharma) of substances are necessarily dependent on their opposites, just as the blue quality of a lotus flower implies that there are also lotuses that are not blue. Similarly, the quality of being non-omniscient, which you attribute to humans, proves that there are also humans who are not non-omniscient, i.e., omniscient. In reality, a quality is meaningful only when there is both possibility and variation, as stated elsewhere: "A quality is meaningful due to possibility and variation. Fire is never characterized by coldness, nor by heat." That is, a quality is meaningful only because of possibility and variation. Coldness is not attributed to fire because it is not possible, and heat is not attributed to fire because it is always hot. Similarly, according to your doctrine, if humans were always non-omniscient, then attributing the quality of non-omniscience to them would be meaningless. It is meaningful only when a human is considered omniscient.
**Verse 189:** The statement "There is no creator of the Vedas" cannot be proven due to the lack of logic, i.e., it does not fit with the concept of non-creation. On the other hand, there are many reasons to believe that "The Vedas have a creator." Just as visible objects like pots and pans have a cause, so too are there many reasons to believe that "The Vedas have a creator."
**Verse 190:** Since the Vedas are in the form of words and sentences, and are filled with the meaning of injunctions and prohibitions, they have a creator. Just as a poem by Maitra is created because it is in the form of words and sentences, so too are the Vedas created because they are in the form of words and sentences.
**Verse 191:** It is heard in the world that the Vedas originated from Brahma, Prajapati, and other beings. This well-known fact cannot be refuted.
**Verse 192:** Perhaps you think that Brahma, etc., are not the creators of the Vedas...