Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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IV ADHYAYA, 4 PÂDA, 6.
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to certain qualities made in VIII, 7, 1, teaches that the Selfhood of the Self is such (i.e. such as made up of those qualities).-Again, the passage, 'He there moves about eating, playing, rejoicing,' shows that the Self possesses lordly power; so also the passage, 'For him there is free movement in all worlds' (Kh. Up. VIII, 1, 6).–And thus also there is justification for such designations as 'Allknowing ; all-powerful.'
6. By the sole nature of intelligence (the soul manifests itself), as that is its Self; thus Audulomi (opines).
Although the text enumerates different qualities, such as freeness from sin, &c., these qualities rest only on fanciful conceptions due to difference of words; for what the text intimates is only absence in general of all qualities such as sin and the rest. Intelligence alone constitutes the nature of the Self, and hence it is proper to conclude that it manifests itself in a nature consisting of that only. This conclusion will also agree with other scriptural texts, such as Bri. Up. IV, 5, 13, Thus this Self has neither inside nor outside, but is altogether a mass of knowledge.'—Qualities, on the other hand, such as having true wishes, are indeed mentioned by the text as real (positive) attributes, the meaning being that his wishes are true, i.e. truly existent ; but all the same they, as depending on the connexion with limiting adjuncts, cannot constitute the true nature of the
Upanyâsa is the reference to something known (established elsewhere), which reference is made with a view to a vidhi, i.e. the establishing of something not yet known (upanyâso nâmoddesah sa kâs nyatra gñatasyâs nyavidhânâyânuvadah). Thus here the qualities -freeness from sin-are referred to as known, for the purpose of establishing the vidhi, That it is which we must search out.'-The passage, He there wanders about,' &c., is a vidhi ; for it teaches what is not already known from elsewhere. The mentioning of such qualities as omniscience and omnipotence is vyapadesa, i.e. simple expression of something known without reference to a vidhi.
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