Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

SR No.: 007609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 887
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 84 MB

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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXT (3154).
“IN THIS WAY PSEUDO-OMNISCIENT PERSONS HAVING BEEN BEATEN OFF BY EACH OTHER, THE FEW THAT REMAIN SHALL BE BEATEN OFF
BY THE UPHOLDER OF THE VEDA."-(3154)
COMMENTARY
The Mimämaaleas asserts his own superiority in the following:
TEXTS (3155-3156).
"ANY HERB THAT HAS BEEN TOUCHED BY THE TEETH OF THE MONGOOSE REMOVES THE POISON OF ALL SERPENTS, EVEN WHEN APPLIED IN PLAY (CARELESSLY); IN THE SAME WAY ANY STRAY SECULAR AND SPIRITUAL ARGUMENT PROCEEDING FROM THE MOUTH OP THE VEDIO SCHOLAR WILL DESTROY THE POTSON OF ALL SERPENT-LIKE BUDDHISTS AND
OTHERS." - (3155-3156)
COMMENTARY.
Question What is this stray argument'! Answer :
TEXTS (3157-3158) * WHO CAN (REASONABLY) ASSUME (ACCEPT) THE EXISTENCE OF A PERSON (OMNISCIENT) WHO CAN BE REJECTED BY SUCH REASONS AS BEING KNOWABLE', 'BEING COGNISABLE', 'BEING AN ENTITY', 'BEING EXISTENT' AND SO FORTH? THE MAN WHO ASSUMES THE EXISTENCE OF AN OMNISCIENT PERSON KNOWING ALL THINGS THROUGH A SINGLE MEANS OF COGNITION MAY CERTAINLY APPREHEND ALL SUCH THINGS AS TASTE, ODOUR, ETO. THROUGH THE
EYES ALONE."—(3157-3158)
COMMENTARY.
When several such Reasons as being knowable and the rest, which are free from such defects as being equally co-existent with the Probandum and the absence of the Probandum-are available for refuting the idea of the Omniscient Person, such a person must be an utter impossibility : and cannot be accepted by any sane person.
For instance, the following reasoning may be set forth-Buddha cannot be omniscient, because he is knowable, cognisable, an entity, existent, a speaker, a person and so forth,-like any common man on the road'. These Reasons could not be regarded as 'Inconclusive'. Because & m