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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISTOX'. 1467
through the Mind, and that also without its coming into contact with the thing; hence He is not regarded by people as blameworthy.
As a matter of fact, there is no one who is really blameworthy; because blame' is not something fixed, it is relative; for instance, what may be blameworthy' for the Vedic Scholar, is not so for the low-born; what happens in the world is that, under the spell of Illusion, Wine and such things are considered evil. But even so, if the Blessed Lord perceived these, He would not be blameworthy'; because His perception of these is purely mental.
The following might be urged" When other people suffer from tasting wine through its contact with the Gestatory Organ, so would He suffer from experiencing it through the Mind".
That is not so. When the Taste, etc. are experienced through the contact of the Sense-organs, they either benefit or injure that organ and hence become sources of pain, etc. ; but they are known to be the source of pain and suffering, not for all mon, but only for some men whose mind has become disordered through the influence of their past misdeeds. For instance, Water becomes Pus for only some dead people, not for all. All this, howover, is not there in the case of the Blessed Lord. Because His experiences being through the Mind, there is no possibility of injury to the Sense-organs ; specially because the Lord having all his five-fold activity free from the impurities of the 'Afflictions',--there is no possibility of his actions being influenced by the Afflictione. Nor is His Mind capable of being disordered, because He cognises all things in their right form and as evanescent. For these reasons, in the case of the Blessed Lord, there is no possibility of even mental pain, in the shape of unhappiness, etc. ; specially because all these have their source in delusion,
All these objections, however, arise only if the External World exists ; under the doctrine of Idealism, there is no room for all this at all.-For instance, for Idealists, there being no Colour-phase, there can be nothing * unclean for them in reality ; nor can there be any impression due to that; because all this arises from Ideas only. All these therefore do not appear within range of the vision of persons who have realised the Highest Truth and have shaken off all impurities; just as, on being cured of visual disorder, people do not have any illusory cognitions like the Hair-tuft' and the like. This has been thus declared :-'The unclean Taste and other things manifest themselves only through Ignorance; hence they are imperceptible (for the Wise One) : just like the second Moon'.
On the other hand, the Brahmana has resounding within his mouth, the words of the Veda, which, being all-pervading, are in contact with all unclean places; as such, how can he be free from blame 1-(3318-3319)
It has been argued by the Mimāmsaka under Text 3146, that "The words of Buddha and others are not found to provide any knowledge of what is contained in the Vedas, etc. ;-how then can such persons be regarded as omniscient, without reason ?"
The answer to this is as follows:
