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The Shri Sutra Kritanga Sutra is the only valid direct perception. Its counter-argument is as follows: Direct perception is the only valid proof. Inference and other types of proofs are not included. This statement may be made by someone who has not worshipped the Guru or studied the scriptures in the Guru's presence. That which reveals the true nature of an object or substance is called proof. The validity of direct perception is proven as follows: Take any direct perceivers as righteous or partisan, then their validity is proven as follows: 'This is proof' because they are not inconsistent with the meaning - they do not contradict it. They do not present it otherwise, they present it in its true form. For example, we are directly seeing a person.
The person who has been directly seen, known, is known in his own soul, but he who has seen directly cannot behave in the same way towards another person, he cannot show it directly because what he has seen is contained in the knowledge of the perceivers, the knowledge of direct perception does not speak, it is silent.
Inference is not proof - this statement of the Charvakas is also based on inference. Then if he refutes inference, it is like the talk of a madman. If it is said that the Charvakas consider inference to be invalid - they cannot accept it as proof because inference is not proof. It is inconsistent with the meaning - it does not reveal it in its true form. For example, experiencing - knowing - a person through inference - but this is also an inference.
If you say that other philosophers consider inference to be proof, therefore, based on their belief, we also take recourse to inference and refute inference on the basis of that inference, it is not reasonable to say so. It can be asked whether the inference famous in other philosophies is proof or non-proof in your view. If you consider it to be proof, then there is no situation to call inference invalid. If you consider it to be invalid, then how do you convince others on its basis? If you say that the other considers inference to be proof, therefore, he can be convinced - explained - by inference, it is also unreasonable to say so. If any other man accepts the invalid as proof due to foolishness, then why do you, being very skilled - competent - try to convince him by means of that invalid? If an ignorant - ignorant man considers jaggery to be poison, does any intelligent person try to give him jaggery to kill him? Does he himself act ignorantly in accordance with his ignorance? Therefore, accepting direct perception as proof and not accepting inference as proof, even though you do not want to, the validity of inference forcefully comes to you.
You have denied heaven and liberation, by what proof do you prove that hell and liberation exist? They cannot be denied by direct perception. Tell me, does direct perception, being present in heaven and liberation, deny them or, being absent, reject them? Direct perception cannot deny heaven and hell by being present because it contradicts the non-existent object, in other words, how can there be a tendency of direct perception in that which does not exist, you do not believe in the existence of heaven and liberation, then there is no situation for direct perception to be present in them. Direct perception denies heaven and liberation by being absent, this is also not possible because when heaven and liberation are directly
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