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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1517
It might be argued that-"Teachings can be imparted at random, without knowing the things taught; so that your Reason is 'Inconclusive'.”
The answer to this is–Mere random teaching, etc. etc. - It is not possible that anyone, without knowledge, should go on talking, and that too against all forms of Right Cognition.-(3451)
TEXTS (3452-3453).
THE SUPERSENSUOUS POTENCY OF GESTURES, MAGIC CIRCLES AND INCANTATIONS TO CURE THE ATTACK OF GHOSTS AND WITCHES, TO REMOVE THE EFFECTS OF POISONS ;- ALSO THE SAGES AND Garuda AND SUCH BEINGS IF THE CLEAR KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THESE THINGS BY DIRECT PERCEPTION, AS APART FROM WORDS AND INFERENCE, DID NOT BELONG TO THESE PERSONS, -HOW IS IT THAT THEY HAVE SPOKEN OF ALL
THIS ?-(3452-3453)
COMMENTARY.
Further, the knowledge of Incantations and other things as possessing the capacity to remove the effects of Poison, etc.,-things that are entirely beyond the reach of the senses,-if these things were not directly known to Buddha and others, how is it that they have spoken of them? This needs to be explained.—(3452-3453)
"It may be that they have spoken of these things after having come to know them through Inference.”
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3454).
HIS KNOWLEDGE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DERIVED THROUGH INFERENCE, AS THERE HAD BEEN NO PREVIOUS PERCEPTION; AND HENCE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE INFERENTIAL INDICATIVE COULD
BE RECOGNISED.-(3454)
COMMENTARY.
Nothing can form the object of Inference of which the relationship to the Indicative has not been recognised; and it is not possible to have any definite notion of the relationship of any Inferential Indicative to a thing which is entirely beyond perception.-(3454)
