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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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1501
Question: "What is the nesertion that sounds well?" Answer:
TEXTS (3394–3396).
[SUCH AN ASSERTION AS THAT)-"THE PERCEPTION OF CERTAIN THINGS
THROUGH CERTAIN CAUSES IN THE PAST WAS EXACTLY AS IT IS FOUND AT THE PRESENT TIME" -As A MATTER OY PACT, EVEN AT THE PRESENT TIME, IT CANNOT BE KNOWN WHAT THE CAPACITY OF PEOPLE IS, BY YOU, WHO ARE A MERE ANIMAL DEVOID OF THE DEFINITE KNOW. LEDGE OF THE CAPACITY OF ALL THINGS. IN FACT, IF YOU HAD THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAPACITY OF ALL THINGS, OMNISCIENCE WOULD INDEED BE YOURS!-NOR CAN IT BE KNOWN BY MEANS OF INFERENCE, AS THERE WOULD ALWAYS BE A SUSPICION REGARDING ITS BEING OTHERWISE.-(3394-3396)
COMMENTARY.
The following might be urged- "When we say that this should have been the same in the past, we do not say so on the basis of what we have actually seen, but on the basis of Inference, the inference being in the form*The means of cognition that is found to apprehend certain things now must have done the same in the past, because it is a Means of Cognition'."
The answer to this is-Nor can it be known by Inference' as in the case of the Amalaki just cited, poculiar effects are found to be brought about by peculiar causes; hence it might be possible that, through some cause, the Means of Cognition apprehends a different kind of things. Hence the Reason adduced would be 'Inconclusive'.-(3394-3396)
It has been argued by the other party, in Text 3160, that "Those persons who have been found to be superior to others are so only on account of intelligence, memory and strength, which vary slightly with varying persons, and not on account of the capacity to perceive supersensuous things".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (3397-3401). IT IS FOUND THAT ON ACCOUNT OF THE CAPACITY TO PERCEIVE SUPERSEN.
SUOUS THINGS ALSO, TRE PRESENCE OF INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER QUALITIES IS PERCEIVED AS ARISING FROM THE FORCE OF THEIR LEARNING, ETC. FOR INSTANCE, THERE IS THE ART OF 'I kşanika (THOUGHT READING ?) WHICH, PROPERLY PRACTISED, BRINGS ABOUT, EVEN DURING THE PRESENT LIFE, THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT IS PASSING IN ANOTHER MAN'S MIND: AND (WITH ITS HELP) PEOPLE COME TO KNOW AND DESCRIBE THINGS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, THAT