Aapta Mimansa

Author(s): Saratchandra Ghoshal
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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ĀPTA-MĪMĀMSĀ
स त्वमेवासि निर्दोषो युक्तिशास्त्राविरोधिवाक् । अविरोधो यदिष्टं ते प्रसिद्धेन न बाध्यते ॥6॥ sa tvamevāsi nirdoso yukti-śāstrāvirodhivāk, avirodho yadiştaṁ te prasiddhena na bādhyate.
6. Only you, whose words are unopposed to logic and scriptures are free from all faults because what is your desire is not opposed to proof.
COMMENTARY In Asta-sahasri it is mentioned that Samantabhadra in one of his verses in Brhat-svayambhū-stotra, while praising Sambhava Jina, has mentioned:
“त्वं संभवः संभवतर्षरोगैः संतप्यमानस्य जनस्य लोके। आसीरिहाकस्मिक एव वैद्यो वैद्यो यथा नाथ रुजां प्रशान्त्यै ॥” Verse 11.
i.e. “You, O Sambhava, in this world you have suddenly appeared like a physician ministering to the cure of diseases, as a healer of people suffering from the thirst of worldly desires."
This verse of Āpta-mīmāṁsā is accordingly explained by Vidyānandi with analogy to the above praise.
It is mentioned by Vidyānandi that as a physician in mitigating a disease becomes faultless when he applies reasoning as well as medical science, so one who follows reasoning and scriptures in laying down liberation and its causes, is free from blemishes. The faults such as ignorance, attachment, aversion etc. are never present in a perfect soul.2 Vasunandi says that here absence of Avidyā arising from attachment or freedom from hunger, 1. “कथमत्र कारिकायामनुपात्तो भिषग्वरो दृष्टान्तः कथ्यतं इति चेत् स्वयं
ग्रन्थकारेणान्यत्राभिधानात्।” Asta-sahasri. 2. “दोषास्तावदज्ञानरागद्वेषादयः ....प्रमाणबलात् सिद्धः सर्वज्ञो वीतरागश्च सामान्यतो यः स त्वमेवार्हन् युक्तिशास्त्रविरोधिवाक्त्वात्। यो यत्र युक्तिशास्त्राविरोधिवाक् स तत्र निर्दोषो दृष्टो, यथा क्वचिद् व्याध्युपशमे भिषग्वरः। युक्तिशास्त्राविरोधिवाक् च भगवान् मुक्तिसंसारतत्कारणेषु, तस्मानिर्दोष इति निश्चयः।" Asta-sahasri, I. 6.