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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OY SUPER-NORMAL VISION. 1537
TEXT (3517).
“As A MATTER OF FACT, NO SCRIPTURAL TEXT TO THIS EFFECT CAN BE FOUND; BUT IF SUCH AN ASSERTION WERE elernal, THEN IT COULD BE ONLY COMMENDATORY; AND IF IT REALLY SPOKE OF A
PERSON, THEN IT WOULD BE NOT-ETERNAL."--(3517)
COMMENTARY.
To this effecti.e. speaking of the Omniscient Person. Question :-"Why cannot it be found ?"
Answer:- If it is eternal, etc. etc.'—If the scriptural toxt speaking of the Omniscient Person is eternal, then it must be purely commendatory, so that it must be taken as really having an entirely different meaning. If it is not held to be merely commendatory, then it must be non-eternal.-(3517)
Question - Why should it be commendatory, if eternal ? Answer:
TEXT (3518).
"IY THE SCRIPTURE IS ETERNAL, THEN THE ASSUMPTION OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON IS TUTILE: AS PEOPLE WOULD LEARN Dharma FROM
THE SCRIPTURE ITSELF."-(3518)
COMMENTARY Tatkalpana'-assumption of the Omniscient Porson. Question: Why is it futile ?
Answer:- As people, etc.-"Tatah'- from the Etornal Scripture itself. (3518)
The author's answer to the above argument of the other party is as follows:
TEXTS (3519-3520).
IN FACT, eternality DOES NOT BELONG EVEN TO THE Veda WELL-KNOWN AS SUCH; BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS Cognition following after effort, or the result of successive Cognitions AND SO FORTH.-BUT IN CASE THE WELL-KNOWN Veda IS ACCEPTED AS RELIABLE, YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT THE OTHER RESCENSIONAL TEXT ALSO AS RELIABLE, BECAUSE THAT ALSO I8 Veda.
(3519-3520)
COMMENTARY. Though the Bgveda and the rest are well-known as Veda, yet it is not well known that they are eternal.
