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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXTS (3320-3321).
IT IS BECAUSE NO WORD OF Täyin ARE FOUND TO PROVIDE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS MENTIONED IN THE VEDA, THAT HE IS OMNISCIENT'. IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE TOO THAT HE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF ALL FALSE PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES ALSO; AS HE DOES MAKE THE DECLARATION THAT WHAT IS ASSERTED IN THE VEDA REGARDING THE SOUL AND OTHER THINGS IS
WRONG.-(3320-3321)
COMMENTARY
A man becomes 'omniscient' by knowing everything exactly as it exists, in its true or other forms; and things that are spoken of in the Veda do not exist exactly as described there ; as they are found to be annulled by proofs. How then could man be a "knower of truth' by expounding things exactly as they are taught in the Veda 1-It cannot be asserted that the Buddha did not know these things at all not even as false ; because they were actually known to Him as such. For instance, it has been pointed out by Him that Animal-sacrifice and other ovil paths of action lead to damnation ; He says- There is no such thing as the Soul, all those things that are there are the effects of causes'; where Ho has declared that the Soul and other things are non-existent. Thus it is not true that the Blessed Lord had no knowledge of the things taught in the Veda.-(3320-3321)
It has been argued by the Mimamsaka under Teact 3147, that-"If things not mentioned in one's own books were held to be known to him, then, by merely composing one's own poems, poets would be omniscient".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3322).
THE DOCTRINE OF 'No-SOUL' HAS BEEN CLEARLY TAUGHT BY HIM FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS DISCIPLES-THE DOCTRINE WHICH IS THE UNIQUE GATEWAY TO THE HIGHEST Good, AND THE YRIGHT OF ALL UPHOLDERS OF WRONG DOC.
TRINES.-(3322)
COMMENTARY Unique ,'-because not understood by other philosophers; all these being enmeshed in the false doctrines of the Soul. All these qualifications apply to the doctrine of No-soul'.
Gateway to the Highest Good, it is so called because it is the means of entering Nirvana ; it is Nirvana that is meant by the term shiva', 'Highest Good'.
