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of empirical reality, while it is the bighest experience which leads us to the Truth Francis Bacon had the limited objective of providing the methodology of scien. tific investigation. Ācārya Samantabhadra has taken the perspective of spiritual reality and has shown the pitfalls in the path to self-realisation. It is the seers, the æsis, who constitute the leaders of thought, and like kindly light, they lead us on. Such enlightened ones or the 'sages' are the first hand exponents of philosophy. 14
References
1 (a) Tattvärtha -sätra : 1, i. (b) Dravyasamgraha 36
(b) Pancastikāyasāra : 106. 2 Ratnak arandakaśravakācāra : 11-18. 3 The Holy Bible : Mathew : 5: 6. 4 Ratnakarandakaśrāvakācāra : 25, 26. 5 lbid. 22 6 Ibid. 23 7 Ibid. 24 8 Francis Bacon - Novum Organum : I, 45 9 lbid I, 43 10 Ibid J, 56 11 lbid I, 55 12 Ibid I, 43 13 Will Durant : The Story of Philosophy
(The pocket library : 1960) p. 134 14 Aldous Huxley : Perennial Philosophy (1959) pp. 10, 11.
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