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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1469
Kudyafinām -Those upholding wrong doctrines, regarding the Soul and other things.-The Path tanght by Buddha is the 'fright'-inspires fear in those childish people who have their faith fixed in false doctrines.This has been thus declared The childish man is always beset with such fears as- I am not, I may cease to exist, naught is mine, nothing shall be mine ; the wise one is without fear.
What is meant by this is that men who are obsessed with false doctrines cannot even speak of the True Doctrine, how can they understand it ?-(3322)
The following Texts point out that the True Doctrine has never been known before by people at the stage of the common man -
TEXTS (3323-3324).
IT IS NOT KNOWN TO THE WORLDLY MAN; WHEN KNOWN, IT SETS ASIDE ALL EVIL; FOR THOSE WHO ARE DEVOTED TO ITS PRACTICE, IT IS A VERITABLE MINE OF VALUABLE QUALITIES. IF THE POETS KNOW THIS HIGHEST TRUTH, THEN WHO IS THERE WHO WOULD NOT REGARD THEM, KNOWING THE PRIMORDIAL MATTER, THE SPIRIT AND OTHER THINGS, AS
omniscient ?(3323-3324)
COMMENTARY.
Not known to not practised by-worldly man-common people.
Question:-“In what way does it benefit people that it has been taught by the Lord ?"
Answer - When known, etc. etc. when it becomes known - directly and realised, it sets aside the whole lot of evils, such as the Afflic. tions, Birth and so forth. Even subsequently, when it is practised, it brings about excellent qualities.
If such a truth, leading as it does to the fulfilment of the Highest Good, is known to the Poets, they may very well be omniscient'; we do not for a moment think that omniscience is confined to a single Person ; in fact, whoever is cognisent of the said Truth, he alone, no one else, is held by us to be omniscient. Such knowledge, however, does not belong to the Poets; hence the contingency that has been urged does not arise.-(3323-3324)
The following Tests show that what has been just said disposes of what has been urged by the other Party under Text 3148, to the effect that"There being many Omniscient Persons, imparting mutually contradictory teachings,-how can any one bo singled out as the One Omniscient Person ?"
