Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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III, 12.
VISIT TO ÂRÂDA AND UDRARÂMA.
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And that the mass of people have not yet removed the idea of soul, (and are therefore still in bondage). But what is this letting go “gunas?” (cords fettering the soul); if one is fettered by these "gunas," how can there be release ? 989
'For guni (the object) and “guna" (the quality) in idea are different, but in substance one; if you say that you can remove the properties of a thing (and leave the thing) by arguing it to the end, this is not so. 990
'If you remove heat from fire, then there is no such thing as fire, or if you remove surface (front) from body, what body can remain ? 991
"Thus "guna" is as it were surface, remove this and there can be no "guni." So that this deliverance, spoken of before, must leave a body yet in bonds. 992
'Again, you say that by “clear knowledge" you get rid of body; there is then such a thing as knowledge or the contrary; if you affirm the existence of clear knowledge, then there should be some one who possesses it (i.e. possesses this knowledge); 993
If there be a possessor, how can there be deliverance (from this personal "I")? If you say there is no “knower," then who is it that is spoken of as “knowing ?" 994
*If there is knowledge and no person, then the subject of knowledge may be a stone or a log; moreover, to have clear knowledge of these minute causes of contamination and reject them thoroughly, 995
*These being so rejected, there must be an end, then, of the "doer." What Åråda has declared cannot satisfy my heart. 996
1 Colebrooke, p. 157.
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