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INTROLUCIION
rii tagonists of Hinduism to peruse the Hindu scriptures with faith alone whence all doubts and misgivings concerning them would surely disperse. Chapter 4 is devoted mainly to show in detail how
Sraddhā (=faith) alone is essential in Chapter 4 dealing with religious scriptures and
how Tarka ( =Wordly and conjectural reasoning) is quite foreign to that field. The author shows elaborately and with the help of illustrations how arguments after arguments would rise up in a limitless manner, and religion, along with all its ensironments, viz. God, divine worship and other rites, the heaven and the hell, etc., would lose itself into nothingness as soon as one resorts to Tarka which, though itself based on no other footing than the fickle and fallible human intellect, strikes at the very root of religion. However, the author says in agreement with Manu, it is not improper to employ Tarka concurrently with the Vedas and the Sāstras with the object of gaining proficiency in religion and in matters concerning it. Finally the author remarks that vise Hindus cannot relax their faith on their age-long religion although ignorant missionaries relying solely on Tarka raise grare issues against it and he appeals to his co-religionists longing for their own well-being to continue unhampered their implicit faith in their own scriptures, which by all means are the best of their kind in the world. In Chapter 5 the author says he would put forth
(in the next chapter ) his lines of Chapter 5 reasoning (=upapattis ) to justify such
matters of Hindu. Šāstras as though
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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