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FOREWORD ::8. All Vijñanas are not different from the things appearing in the Vijñana, because they themselves being knowables are not different from themselves.
9. The rays of the eyes returned by the glass never see the real face. If so, the rays should feel the face as a real face, but they feel the contrary. The existence of the external world therefore cannot be proved.
XXIV. S'rutipariksa. Examination of the Revealed Literature. 1. The doctrine of Vijñana as formulated by the Buddhists cannot stand to reason, as it is completely against the teachings of the Vedas which are of the highest authority. The Vedas have unquestionable authority as they are not human creations, As the five kinds of proof fail to establish the author of the Vedas, by the sixth proof or the proof of absence is established the absence of any author for the Vedas. Further, the Vedas being eternal are neither produced nor destroyed.
2. The knowledge derived from the Vedas cannot be proved as invalid by inference, because the inference is much inferior in authority to the proof of the Revealed Literature which is tantamount to the proof of perception.
3. The sound also is eternal and omnipresent because, it is always known and everywhere known, like the sun, and is identified &B one. • 4. The sounds are not always heard, because they are known only by the movement of the wind in the ear. By the power of the mind the meaning of sounds such as dirgha etc. are known.
5. The words should be eternal, because they always express their meanings. Had it been a product then with every speaker the connection of the words with their meanings should be known again.
6. In our opinion not only are the letters eternal but so also the words which are known as products, because they are still aniversally employed with the same meanings as our forefathers used to attribute to then. :
| SR No. | 010566 |
| Book Title | Tattvasangraha 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Embar Krishnamacharya |
| Publisher | Central Library |
| Publication Year | 1926 |
| Total Pages | 832 |
| Language | Hindi, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 57 MB |