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"THE REVEALED WORD."
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What is meant by this is as follows:
The notion of yours, that the Veda is self-sufficiont in its authority, cannot be right unless thero is an omniscient Person ;-honce such a Person has got to bo admitted ;-otherwise the authority and reliability of the Veda would be innpossiblo; as explained above. Under the circunstances, it is far bettor to rely upon the word of this person himself, for the knowledge of Dharma and such inatters; what is the use of issuining the Word not procooding froin a Person,—the reliability of which Word must always remain doubtful?
It has been urgued that inattors like Dharma are not amenable to the direct ineditutivo Perception of the Mysties. This assertion also is defective; because it is going to be proved later on, by means of Inference, that there can be such perception in the case of Mystics.-(2810)
End of Chapter XXIV
