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TATTVASAÑORATA : CHAPTER XXII.
This however cannot be right. As a matter of fact, the Materialist does not admit the authority or validity of the doctrines of other people ; how then could he come to have a conviction on the basis of what he does not accept as valid ? Specially, in this same way he may come to the decision that the other world'exists.
If it is from any other valid source of knowledge that the Materialist derives the said conviction, then, why has not that same source been cited as the proof? Where was the use of putting up a Reason which does not lead to the desired conclusion and which only indicates sheer stupidity ? Certainly that other proof could not be unfit for proving the other conclusion (of the Materialist)—for which reason it has not been adduced (1916)
Even though the statement may be made on the basis of the Budelitist doctrine, yet there are some Buddhists who cannot admit the Corroborative Instance (of the Arhats) to be endowed with the Probandum (not bringiny about further consciousness).This is what is shown in the following
TEXTS (1917-1918).
AS REGARDS THIS MATTER, THERE ARE SOME WISE PERSONS WHO DESCRIBE the Jinas (BUDDHAS) AS · Beinas' WHOSE NIRVĀŅA' IS NOT ABSO. LUTE AND FINAL', --AND THE Two PATHS AS AIMING AT THAT SAME PATH.-FOR THESE PEOPLE THE INSTANCE CITED CANNOT BE ADMITTED TO BE ENDOWED WITH THIS PROBANDUM;-VEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN CITED (BY THE MATERIALIST) ON THE BASIS OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE OTHER DISPUTANT.
(1917-1918)
COMMENTARY.
* This malter, -the doctrine of the Buddhist
Some wise persons',tho Malutyanist-Mädhyamikas.
These people have declared that the 'Nirvūna' of the Budellicus consists in the absence of absoluto finality: on the ground that both Birth-Cyclo and cessation of conscious existonou are neither final nor absolute for them. --As regards the Neo-phyle aud the Prospective Buddha, those also have the saine path of the Buddha' u thoir goal; as is clear from such statements as- There is only one Patlı, that of the Malayana':-(1917-1918)
Having pointed out the defect in the Corroborative Instance, tho Author proceeds to show that the Probans also is open to the charge of being "Inconclusive':