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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1459
regard to anything else; because it is the Post which partakes of the nature of both (Man and Post).-If it were not so, then Doubts may arise in regard to even those things that have never been seen; so that the condition necessary for all Doubt-viz. the partaking of the nature of both factors,-would not be present.Thus it is only right that there should be doubt in regard to the oxistence of Fire in the Iron-ball;—not so in regard to the Omniscient Person; as such a person has never been perceived.-(3297-3298)
The Author's answer to the above is as follows:
TEXT (3299)
IN THIS MANNER, O CLEVER MAN, THE NON-EXISTENCE OF YOUR MOTHER'S MARRIAGE BECOMES ESTABLISHED TREE FROM ALL
DOUBT :-(3299)
COMMENTARY.
If the idea is that there can be Doubt only in regard to a thing that has been perceived some time or the other, and in regard to all other things there should be certainty of non-existence, then under that principle, the non-existence of your mother's marriage becomes established, beyond all doubt; because you have never before perceived that marriage ; by virtue of which there could be no certainty regarding its non-existence.
The rest of the objection is to be answered as before. Clever man'-is said in derision.-(3299)
Says the Opponent-"If such be the case, then there can be no basis for Doubt at all".
Answer
TEXT (3300).
WE HOLD THAT THERE IS DOUBT ALSO WHEN THERE IS NO VALID COGNITION; IT ARISES IN REGARD TO existence AS WELL AS nonexistence, FROM THE ABSENCE OF THE OPERATION OF ANY OF THE MEANS OF RIGHT COGNITION.
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COMMENTARY.
The absence of the operation of any Means of Right Cognition can always be shown in regard to both existence and non-existence of things; hence there can be no restriction in this matter. Hence our explanation is that Doubt arises whenever there is no certainty (regarding either existence or non-existence). This has been thus declared-Doubt is that wavering judgment in which the definito cognition of the specific character of any one
