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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXTS (3468-3472).
OR, IT MAY BE THAT THE STATEMENT MADE BY Rtuparna WAS WITH
REFERENCE TO COMMON DULL-WITTED PERSONS LIKE HIMSELF, WHOSE MINDS HAVE NOT BEEN PURIFIED.-IX SUPPORT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THERE BEING AN OMNISCIENT PERSON, WE HAVE ALREADY STATED THE PROOF IN DETAIL-ARGUMENTS TO THE CONTRARY BROUGHT FORWARD BY OTHER PARTIES HAVE ALSO BEEN REFUTED.-IN FACT, EVEN IF THE PROOF IN SUPPORT OF HIS EXISTENCE HAD NOT BEEN PUT FORWARD, THE MERE ANNULMENT OF THE ARGUMENTS TO THE CONTRARY WOULD HAVE ESTABLISHED THE PROBABILITY OF HIS EXISTENCE. BECAUSE WHERE NOTHING AGAINST A CERTAIN IDEA IS PERCEIVED, NOR ANYTHING IN SUPPORT OF IT, THERE ABISES A DOUBT REGARDING IT; WHICH INDICATES ITS PROBABILITY. IN FACT, IT IS ONLY WHEN THIS PROBABILITY IS THERE, THAT THERE CAN BE SUCH AN ASSERTION TO THE CONTRARY (MADE BY THE Mimamsaka) AS THAT-"IT IS BY MEANS OF THE Veda alone THAT Dharma CAN BE KNOWN".—(3468-3472)
COMMENTARY. Suusamän-People like-similar to-himself-(3468-3472)
It has been argued, under Text 3174, that "The capacity of Perception has never been found applicable to the future, etc. etc.".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3473).
EVEN IN REGARD TO FUTURE THINGS, THE CAPACITY OF PERCEPTION WOULD BE APPLICABLE, IN THE CASE OF MYSTIOS, --AS HAS BEEN POINTED OUT IN THE CHAPTER ON THE THREE
POINTS OF TIME'.-(3473)
COMMENTARY
'As has been pointed out in the chapter, etc. etc. This is what has been said under that chapter:-All things, directly or indirectly, bear to each other the relation of cause and effect; the Present thing is always, directly or indirectly, the effect of the Past, and the cause of the Future thing. What the Mystics do is to apprehend all things by direct Perception, and thereby determine the Past and the Future entity also, on the basis of the chain of entities', past and future, which are related as cause and effect respectively, - by means of conceptions that are object-less and hence not entirely in conformity with reality, or purely worldly, which iollow on the wake of the said Perception.
