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: 191: पृथिवी" इत्यादीनि तु सत्ताप्रतिपादकानि, अतस्तव संशयः । तदेतेषां वेदपदानां त्वमर्थ न जानासि, चशब्दाद् युक्तिहृदयं च न वेरिस । तेन संशयं कुरुषे । तेषां चायमर्थो वक्ष्यमाणलक्षण इति ॥१४१॥ (१६८९)
D. C.-This is your querry-"Do the pancabhitas viz. Prthvi (earth) ap (water), tėjas (fire), vāyu (air) and ākāśa (ether) exist or not? This querry is based upon your misapprehension of certain sentences of the Vedas, that are mutually contradictory. The sentences are(1) "Svapnopamam vai sakalamitydsa brahmavidhiranjasa
vijndyah" etc. (2) “Dyāvā-prithvt" etc. and (8) “ Prithvi-dovatā, āpo devatāḥ " etc. Your interpretation of these sentences runs thus :
All this world is nothing but a dream or illusion. So, one should honestly endeavour to know the Brahma, which is the the only paramārthaprakāśa worth attaining.
Such sentences refute the existence of the five elements while others like Dyāvā prithivi and « Prithivi devatā, āpo dòvatān” establish the existence of those very elements. These contradicting sentences of the Vedas have given rise to your doubt.
Really speaking, you have not understood the real purport of the above sentences. Here I give their correct interpretation. Listen to it.
भूएसु तुज्झ संका सुविणय-माओवमाई होज त्ति। न वियारिजंताई भयंति जं सव्वहा जुत्ति ॥१४२॥ (१६९०) Bbūèsu tujjha sankā guviņaya-māövamāim hojja tti i Na viyārijjantāim bhayanti jam savvahā juttim. 142 (1690) [भूतेषु तव शङ्का स्वमक-मायोपमानि भवेयुरिति ।
न विचार्यमाणानि भजन्ति यत् सर्वथा युक्तिम् ॥१४२॥ (१६९०)
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