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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1539
TEXT (3523).
IF THAT BE SO, THEN HOW ARE ALL SUCH THINGS AS CLARIFIED BUTTER, NIVĀRA-CORN AND FIRE, WHICH ARE not-eternal,--SPOKEN OF
IN THE VEDA, WHICH IS eternal ?-(3523)
COMMENTARY.
Ājya' is Clarified Butter;--Nivāra is a particular kind of Corn; Chāmikarajāta'is Fire.--"Tēna'-by the Veda.-(3523)
The following texts anticipate and answer the Opponent's rejoinder:
TEXTS (3524-3525).
IF IT IS URGED THAT-"IN THESE CASES ALSO, THERE IS THE Universal,
WHICH IS eternal",-THEN THE ANSWER IS THAT) THAT ALSO HAS BEEN DISCARDED. THEN AGAIN, IF THE WORD EXPRESSES THE Universal ALONE, THEN IT CANNOT BRING ABOUT THE COGNITION OF THE PARTICULAR THINGS, CLARIFIED BUTTER AND THE REST. IF IT EXPRESSES THIS LATTER ALSO, THEN DOES IT NOT LOSE ITS eternality? FURTHER, IN REGARD TO THE OMNISCIENT PERSON ALSO, THE SCRIPTURAL WORD COULD RETAIN ITS ETERNALITY IN THE SAME WAY, EVEN THOUGH DENOTING THE PERSON (WAO IS NOT-ETERNAL).-(3524-3525)
COMMENTARY.
[The other Party says) "In tho case of the Clarified Butter and other things, there is the Universal which is expressed by the word; so that there could be no incongruity".
This cannot be right; because under the chapter on the Universal', the Universal has been rejected in detail.
Granting that the Universal is there; even so, as the word 'Clarified Butter' would express the Universal only, it could not bring about the notion of the Individual; and in that case, the denoting of the Universal would be useless, so far as that man is concerned who seeks to do some act that could be accomplished only through the Individual.
"The Individual is cognised because it is unseparable from the Universal".
That cannot be; because, as a matter of fact, there is no such remoteness in the Cognition. That is to say, it does not so happen that when the word is uttered, the Cognition that comes about first is that of the Universal, and then later on, follows the Cognition of the Individual as inseparable from that Universal. What actually happens in ordinary experience is that the Cognition of the usefully effective thing (which is the Individual) follows from the word immediately (directly); in fact, people use the word
