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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION. 1429
TEXTS (3222-3223).
" AS THE FACT IS CAPABLE OF ANOTHER EXPLANATION, THE PRESUMPTION (PUT FORWARD) HAS NO EFFICACY (IN PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON). FOR THE SAME REASON, THE INFERENCE THAT HAS BEEN PUT FORWARD IS NOT VALID. For INSTANCE, THE FACT OF Buddha AND OTHERS HAVING TAUGHT Dharma, ETC. CAN BE EXPLAINED IN ANOTHER WAY--FOR INSTANCE, AS BEING DUE TO DREAMS, OR TO DELUSION, OR TO THE VEDA ITSELF, OR TO WRONG
TEACHING."-(3222-3223)
COMMENTARY.
Teaching by people may be due to delusion and other causes also ;hence both, the Presumption and the Inference cited, are inconclusive.
Question How can it be otherwise explained ?
Answer: To dreams, etc. etc.-as declared in Shabara's Bhagya (1. 1. 2.) Teaching proceeds from delusion also ; and when there is no Delusion it proceeds from the Veda also ':-Teaching proceeding from Delusion is found in cases where things dreamt of are taught ; and that proceeding from the Veda is found in the case of the teachings of Manu and others.-(3222-3223)
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As regards Sugata and others, who are ignorant of the Veda, -their teachings might have proceeded from sheer Delusion for the purpose of deceiving people.
This is pointed out in the following
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TEXTS (3224-3225).
" THOSE WHO ARE IGNORANT OF THE VEDA CANNOT HAVE THEIR TEACHING BASED UPON THE VEDA; IT CAN PROCEED FROM DELUSION ONLY. IN THE WORLD THE TEACHINGS THAT ARE PROPOUNDED BY WICKED TEACHERS ARE NOT BASED UPON THE VEDA; THEY PROCEED EITHER FROM DELUSION OR FOR THE PURPOSE
OF DUPING THE DISCIPLES."—3224-3225)
COMMENTARY.
Atadashrayāt-not based on the Veda.-(3224-3225)
Question How is it known that the teaching of Buddha does not proceed on the basis of the Voda? Answer -
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