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officient by itself, there is no imperfoction in its charactor ; what sort of need or dependence could there be in that case ?
If it be held that at first it is inefficient, but subsequently, it becomes efficient through the contact of contributory cause, then you had better give up all liopo for the eternality of the Veda !-(2364)
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Question Answer:
TEXT (2365).
ly IT WAS PREVIOUSLY INEFFICIENT, AND IS MADE EFFICIENT BY THE EXPLANATIONS, THEN IT BECOMES A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE HELP OF PERSONALITIES, AND HENCE THE
WORK OF A PERSON-(2365)
COMMENTARY.
The underlying idea is that the efficiency or potency is not something apart from the Voda itself; if it were something different, then as there would be no connection between the Veda and the efficiency, the Veda would not be an active agent at all; as effects are produced from officiency only.
"Source of knowledge-The Voda as source of knowledge, comes to be born of Personalities; the form of the Veda itself becomes born of Personalities; and as all this is not different from the Veda, the Veda itself becomes 'born of personalities':-(2365)
Further, it is not only that by dependence upon something else, the Voda becomes non-eternal; the assumption that it is not the work of an author also becomes futile.-This is shown in the following:
TEXTS (2366-2368).
THE VEDA, AS IT STANDS, PROVIDES NO KNOWLEDGE TO US, UNTIL IT IS
ILLUMINATED (EXPLAINED) BY PERSONS WHO ACT AS LAMPS. Cox. SEQUENTLY THERE IS NO REASON FOR THE ASSUMPTION THAT WHAT BRINGS ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS IS SOMETHING WHICH IS NOT THE WORK OF A PERSON; BECAUSE THE KNOWLEDGE IN QUESTION DOES PROCEED FROM THE EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED BY PERSONS. THUS THE CHARACTER OF not being the work of a Person, EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE PRESENT IN THE VEDA, IS OF NO USE; BECAUSE THE ONLY RESULT PRODUCED BY THE VEDA-I.E. KNOWLEDGE-IS DEPENDENT UPON PERSONS.—(2366-2368)
COMMENTARY.
The idea that the Veda is not the work of a Person is postulated for the purpose of showing that the knowledge provided by it must be right