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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'.
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TEXT (3510).
WE ARE NOT AFFIRMING THE EXISTENCE OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON ON THE BASIS OF SCRIPTURAL DECLARATIONS. WHEN THE INFERENTIAL REASON IS AVAILABLE, WHO WOULD MAKE AN
ASSERTION ON THE BASIS OF VERBAL AUTHORITY (3510)
COMMENTARY.
So long as Inference on the basis of the capacity of things is available, who would seek to establish the existence of things on the basis of mere verbal assertion which is entirely dependent upon the whim of man? It is for this reason that we are not proving the existence of the Omniscient Person on the basis of scriptural declarations; in fact, we are doing it on the basis of Inference; and this has been already explained before.—(3510)
Nor is it true (as asserted by the Opponent) that there is no scriptural declaration affirming the eternal Omniscient Person" this is what is pointed out in the following:
TEXTS (3511-3512).
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BUT IF YOU REGARD THE VEDA AS RELIABLE, THEN, HOW IS IT THAT YOU, DELUDED PEOPLE, DO NOT APPREHEND THE Omniscience or THE BLESSED LORD? As A MATTER OF FACT, IN THE VEDIO RESCENSIONAL TEXT CALLED 'Nimitta', THE LEARNED BRAHMANAS CLEARLY READ OF THE REVERED GREAT
SAGE AS 'OMNISCIENT'-(3511-3512)
COMMENTARY.
For instance, there is a particular Vedic Rescensional Text under the name *Nimitta'; and therein, the Blessed Lord, Shakya-Muni is clearly spoken of as 'omniscient'.-How is it then, that you, dull-witted people, while taking your stand upon the Veda, are denying Him ?-(3511-3512)
The following Text points out how He is spoken of in the said Vedic text:
