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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1407
Granting that all Intelligences become superior by practice and exercise even so, they become superior without transcending their inherent limita. tions. This is what is pointed out in the following:
TEXTS (3162-3163).
** As A MATTER OF FACT, IN THE MATTER OF THE AUDITORY PERCEPTION OF SOUNDS, SUPERIORITY AMONG MEN IS FOUND IN THE APPREHENDING OF DISTANT AND SUBTLE SOUNDS,-NOT IN THE APPREHENDING OF COLOUR AND OTHER THINGS. SIMILARLY IN THE MATTER OF VISUAL PERCEPTION, WHAT IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE ATTAINMENT OF SUPERIORITY IS THE PERCEPTION OF REMOTE AND SUBTLE COLOUR, -NOT THE PERCEPTION OF SOUND AND OTHER THINGS."
(3162-3163)
COMMENTARY
The apprehensions 'Cognitions of distant and subtle sounds';the Instrumental ending connotes Indication'. In some places, the reading is ' upalabdhitah', in the Ablative; connoting reason'; the 'tasi' at the end coming under the rule Vidhāyādi, etc.'
The apprehension of sound, etc.'-is not brought about by the Eyes.(3162-3163)
Hitherto it has been shown that Sense-perception cannot transcend its limitations ; it is now going to be shown that in the case of Mental Cognition also, the superiority that is perceptible does not go beyond the range of the subject of repeated experience :
TEXT (3164).
"SIMILARLY GREAT SUPERIORITY IS OFTEN FOUND IN MEN, IN THE MATTER OF SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSIONS ; BUT THAT ALONE DOES NOT PROVE THAT THE MAN IS AN EXPERT IN all
SCIENCES."-(3164)
COMMENTARY
The same idea is further clarified :
