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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
It has been argued by the Mināmsaka, under 2114 that-"When people who have been intent upon the study, the retention and the exposition of the Veda and in the performance of acts enjoined therein, have not been able to detect any grounds of falsity, how can they be detected by persons who have kept themselves aloof from it?"
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (2446-2447).
THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE IN THE FACT THAT PEOPLE, WHOSE INTELLI GENCE HAS BEEN DULLED BY THE CONSTANT CONTEMPLATION OF THE VEDA, PROMPTED BY FALSE ATTACHMENT, HAVE FAILED TO DETECT THE SOURCES OF FALSITY (IN THE VEDA). THE Parasika PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO THE PRACTICE DO NOT PERCEIVE ANYTHING WRONG IN THE
REMARRIAGE OF THEIR MOTHERS.-(2446-2447)
COMMENTARY
The compound is to be expounded as—' those who have been jadikytadulled by the contemplation of the Veda which has been prompted by false attachment."
Adhyāna' is constant contemplation or pondering.
On account of these, false attachment, ete, they do not perceive the defect, even though it is there. As for example, the Parasika people see nothing wrong in the marriage of their mothers. So there is nothing strange in what has been urged by the Mimāmsaka.-(2446-2447)
It has been argued by the Mimamsaka, under Text 2117 that--"The eternality and all-pervasiveness of the Word is established, etc. etc.
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2448).
THE IDEA OF RECOGNITION BEING OF THE NATURE OF PERCEPTION HAS BEEN ALREADY DISCARDED; AND AS WRONG COGNITION IS ALWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH CONCEPTUAL CONTENT'. THERE CAN BE NO CERTAINTY REGARDING
ETERNALITY.-(2448)
COMMENTARY. Sense perception has been defined as what is free from Conceptual Content and not wrong'; Recognition is not free from Conceptual Content, as it always appears as associated with words, in the form this is that same.
Nor is it not wrong'; because it envisages sameness between what was seen before and what is seen now; and yet what is seen now can never
