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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1395
thus these two characters, positive and negative ', have been described by us as standing for the entire universo; if, it is on the basis of the knowledge of the whole world in this form (as consisting of Positive and Negative entities), that the 'Omniscient Person' is sought to be proved, even this is acceptable to us. But this alone cannot prove the 'omniscient character' of any person".
This epitome of the world'-Being of the Positive and Negative form constitutes the epitome of the World, in the sense that it epitomises it.
Similarly if the whole world is viewed as 'knowable', 'cognisable, etc. and one knowing it thus is all-knowing , then this also is what is readily admitted by us.-(3132-3133)
TEXT (3134).
"WHEN CERTAIN PEOPLE HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT SUCH AND SO MANY ARE all THE THINGS THAT EXIST, ALL THOSE WHO KNOW THIS AND THOSE WHO HAVE LEARNT THE WORKS WRITTEN BY THEM SHOULD BE 'all-KNOWING'."
-(3134)
COMMENTARY.
It might be that there are some people who have come to the conclusion in their own systems that so many are all the things that exist, and have postulated them to be as such ;e.g. the Bauddhas have postulated the
Five Thought-phases: the Vaishesikas have postulated the Six Categories':-the Naiyāyikas have postulated the "Sixteen Categories ', - "Means of Cognition', 'Objects of Cognition and so forth;-the Särikhyas have postulated the twenty-five Principles-Primordial Matter', tho Great Principle and so forth.-And one who knows these is held to be 'all. knowing ---In this way, it leads to absurdities, such as people who read the works written by these people also become 'all-knowing'-(3134)
TEXT (3135).
"FOR INSTANCE, ONE WHO HAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE SIX OBJECTS OF COGNITION, THROUGH THE SIX MEANS OF COGNITION', WOULD BB 'KNOWING ALL' IN AN EPITOMISED FORM ; WHO IS THERE WHO WOULD NOT ADMIT SUCH AN
OMNISCIENT PERSON ? "-(3135)
COMMENTARY.
It might be urged that If a man, through the six Means of Cognition -Perception, Inference, Analogy, Word, Presumption and Non-apprehension -cognises the six kinds of objects, he would be regarded as omniscient; but this also would be futile, proving what is already admitted. Because
