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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1455
TEXTS (3287-3288).
OR, THERE MAY BE NO SUCH ASSERTION (REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON); NOR MAY SUCH ASSERTION BE RELIABLE ; EVEN SO, YOU HAVE COME TO THE CERTAINTY THAT "THE OMNISCIENT PERSON IS NOT APPREHENDED BY ANY MAN”; AND SUCH CERTAINTY COULD BE POSSIBLE ONLY IF THE SOULS OF ALL MEN WERE KNOWN TO YOU, AND IF ALL THESE WERE KNOWN TO YOU, THEN YOU YOURSELF WOULD BE OMNISCIENT,
AS HAS BEEN POINTED OUT ABOVE.—(3287-3288)
COMMENTARY.
* Assertion '-i.e. the one declaring the existence of the Omniscient Person.
Asya'--reliability of the said assertion.
'If the Souls of all men were lenown'-.e. if you knew the nature of all men.
It might be said "We do have the knowledge of the nature of all men”. -The answer to this is- If all these were, etc. etc.'-i.e. if the souls of all men were known to you.-(3287-3288)
TEXTS (3289-3290).
IF IT WERE NOT SO, THEN, EVEN ON NON-APPREHENSION, THERE WOULD BE DOUBT ONLY (REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON), JUST AS THERE IS REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF CERTAIN THINGS. THERE ARE SOME SAINTLY PERSONS TOO WHO ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON. - IT IS ALSO CONCEIVABLE THAT THE OMNISCIENT PERSON, BEING SELF-LUMINOUS, PERCEIVES HIMSELF BY HIMSELF.-FOR THESE REASONS THERE CAN BE NO CERTAINTY REGARDING THE NON-APPREHENSION OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON
BY all men.-(3289-3290)
COMMENTARY..
'If it were not so ', --if there is no knowledge of the Souls of all men.
Like the existence of certain things':-.e. as in the case of the existence of things far removed in place or time.
What is meant is as follows In the case of things far removed in space and time, even when the thing is not apprehended, there is always a suspicion regarding its existence, even though there is non-apprehension of the thing : in the same manner, it is only right that there should be suspicion regarding the existence of the Omniscient Person who has been apprehended (known) by other men.
