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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1485
A compatible-i.e. practicable method' in the shape of meditating upon soul-less-ness-is taught in them; and they do not lay down such impracticable methods as the securing of the crest-jewel of the king of serpents.
They set forth what is useful for men - in the shape of Prosperity and the Highest good; they do not set forth such useless things as the investigation of the subject of the teeth of crows.
Says the Opponent" All this is applicable to the words of Kapila and other teachers also ".
Answer E ven in regard to, etc., etc.'-'Perceptible i.e. regarded as amenable to Perception and Inference; not annulled by the troo means of Cognition 'Perception and Inforence; because the real state of things is exactly as spoken of in the words.
That is to say, what is regarded as amenable to Perception is the fivefold group of Thought-phases in the shape of the conceptions of (a) the Blue and other objects, (6) Pleasure, Pain and other Feelings, (c) the causes of these, (d) the Apprehension, (e) Love and Hate, eto., and it cannot be otherwise than what is asserted by Buddha; just like the imperceptibility of things regarded as imperceptible; so also of what other parties have regarded as perceptible, such as the various varieties of Colour, Sound and the rest, Pleasure, etc., and Substances, Actions, Universals and Conjunctions; also such things as functioning through the potencies of things, and the rest are regarded as amenable to Inference,-all these are exactly as asserted (by the words of Buddha). Similarly too, the four Noble Paths', which are not regarded as amenable to Inference, are actually found to be not so amenable ; just as the Soul and other things which are regarded by other parties as amenable to Inference functioning through the potency of things.
The particle 'api', also, indicates that the words are not otherwise, even in regard to things that are not perceptible. For instance, what the words of Buddha have taught, for the removal of Love, etc., is the doctrine of "No-soul' as contrary to and counteracting the doctrine of Soul' which is at the root of that Love and Hate, eto, and the things emanating therefrom ;
-and they have not taught-like the words of Kapila and others—such means as Bathing, performance of the Agnihotra and so forth, which are not incompatible with the root cause of Love, Hate, etc.-(3343)
The following Text points out that it was for this reason that the Blessed Lord declared that- This is to be accepted by the wise, after proper testing, as in the case of gold':
TEXT (3344). [THE WORDS OF BUDDHA) ARE FREE FROM IMPURITIES, LIKE GOLD TESTED BY HEATING', 'OUTTING' AND ' TOUCHING'; AND, LIKE THE GOLD, THEY DO NOT UNDERGO ANY CHANGE IN THE PROCESS OF TESTING AND INVESTIGATION.
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COMMENTARY. Just as gold, which is free from all impurities, pure, when tested by Heating', etc., does not undergo any change, -50 also the jewel-like words of
