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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1497
TEXTS (3374–3377).
WHEN REASONS SUCH AS BEING KNOWN, BEING AN ENTITY', 'BEING'
AND SO FORTH ARE INCAPABLE OF SETTING ASIDE THE OMNISCIENT PERSON, -WHO IS THERE WHO WILL NOT ADMIT HIS EXISTENCE ? -THUS NO REASON, EITHER TEMPORAL OR SCRIPTURAL, THAT THE UPHOLDER OF THE VEDA CAN HAVE IN HIS MOUTH, IS CAPABLE OF REMOVING THE POISON OF THE AWFUL SERPENT IN THE SHAPE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE Shakya.--IN FACT, THE FEEBLE AND DULL-WITTED BRAHMANA, EVEN WHEN MERELY GLANCED AT BY THE POISON FROM THE EYES (OF THAT SERPENT), BECOMES UNABLE EVEN TO BREATHE, --WHAT TO SAY OF SETTING IT ASIDE ! ANY REASONING, EVEN WHEN SOUND, BECOMES UGLY IN THE MOUTH OF THE VEDIC SCHOLAR, -ON ACCOUNT OF ITS ABUNDANCE IN A LOWLY SUBSTRATUM ; JUST LIKE THE STRING OF BEADS PLACED AT THE FEET.—(3374–3377)
COMMENTARY.
• Who will not admit His existence ?'-i.e. as a possibility. That is to say, when the mere absence of proofs to the contrary establishes that possibility. This matter may rest here.
There is no wonder that the unsound reasoning appearing in the mouth of the Vedic Scholar does not shine ; what is strange, however, is that even a sound reason when asserted by you, fails to shine, on account of the defective character of its substratum.-(3374-3377)
How so?'
Question Answer:
TEXTS (3378-3379).
HE CANNOT ASSERT EVEN THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE CONCOMITANCE BETWEEN Smoke and Fire ; BECAUSE, UNDER HIS VIEW, Smoke EXISTS ELSEWHERE ALSO ; IN FACT, BEING OF THE ONE UNIFORM NATURE OF 'ENTITY', IT EXISTS IN THE OCEAN ALSO ; AND IF FIRE EXISTS THERE ALSO, THEN WHERE WOULD THE absence
(OF THE PROBANS) LIE --(3378-3379)
COMMENTARY.
That the birth of Smoke is related to Fire, and that it is invariably concomitant with Fire is known even to the veriest cowherd ; and yet you, by describing the whole world as really one and uniform in the shape of "Entity', are unable to say that Smoke is infallible in its concomitance with Fire; because under your view, in the form of 'Entity', it is present in water also.
"Even so there would be concomitance with Fire."
