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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
ADMITTED, THERE COULD BE NO RELIABILITY IN THE VEDA. THUS THEN, THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE PERCEIVER OP DHARMA HAVING BEEN BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRESUMPTION, IT ANNUIS THE DENIAL OF SUCH A PERSON WHICH YOU HAVE ELABORATED IN SUCH DETAIL.(3265-3267)
COMMENTARY. * By Himself'-independently of all else; i.e. independently of the knowledge provided by the Veda.
Such a Person'-j.e. the like of whom you are denying.
Brought about by Presumption' i.e. by the force of the doctrine that the Veda is reliable.
It is on this ground that the opponent's Reason-because He is envisaged by Negation'-becomes Inadmissible; because He is actually envisaged by Presumption.-(3265-3267)
Under Text 3129 et seq. it has been asserted by the Opponent that "the term 'all' is used in reference to the context", and on this several alterna. tives have been put forward and many objections urged (against the idea of the All-knowing, Omniscient, Person).
But there is no room for all this; because we do not admit of any such idea. When we postulate the Omniscient Person, we do not mean that He knows all possible things, even those other than Dharma. And the objections urged would be applicable to only such an idea. In fact, the 'Omniscient Person 'postulated by us is one whose mind has become freed from all aberrations and afflictions, obstacles to knowledge and impurities, -by virtue of which Dharma and other things all become revealed to his consciousness. Against such a view you have not put forward a single argument.
Again, it has been argued by the Opponent under Text 3137 that "In one body alone, there are so many atoms, etc. etc.- and who can know all these 1-etc. etc."-This is a mere assertion, made without any proof; and nothing can be proved by a mere assertion without reasons in support of it.-Because in this way, all things would be established for all men.
With a view to all this, the Author makes the following statement :
TEXTS (3268-3269). FURTHER, WHAT HAS BEEN ASSERTED-AS TO THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANY ONE KNOWING ALL HAIRS AND NAILS, ETC.IS WITHOUT ANY BASIS, DUE ENTIRELY TO IGNORANCE; BECAUSE IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT THERE MAY BE SOME ONE FOR WHOM ALL THINGS BECOME MANIFESTED BY THE CLEAR AND UNFLINCHING LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE-AND NO REASON HAS BEEN ADDUCED
AGAINST SUCH POSSIBILITY.-(3268-3269)
COMMENTARY. that in support of which the three-factored
Without any basis Probans is not available.
