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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXTS (3552-3553).
HOW TOO DO YOU ASCERTAIN, INDEPENDENTLY, THE SAID 'MORTALITY'? CERTAINLY NOT ON THE BASIS OF THE SCRIPTURE' OF OTHER PEOPLE; AS WHAT THAT SCRIPTURE SAYS HAS JUST BEEN POINTED OUT.NOR DO WE POSTULATE OUR 'OMNISOTENT PERSONS' As RIVALS TO THE 'OMNISOIENT PERSONS' POSTULATED
BY OTHERS; WHO COULD EVER CONCEIVE OF ANY RIVALRY BETWEEN REAL ENTITIES AND
*SKY-FLOWERS'?—(3552-3553)
COMMENTARY.
If you hold to the 'mortality' independently, then your Reason is doubtful-hence-Inadmissible'. In fact, you have no proof in support of the idea of the Blessed Lord being mortal,-by virtue of which the said mortality could be regarded as independently ascertained. Hence the *mortality' has to be asserted by you on the basis of the scripture of the other party; and what the scripture of the other party has to say on the point has just been shown.-Thus the 'mortality' of the Blessed Lords remains 'unproven'.-(3552-3553)
Question "How is it known that these other Omniscient Persons are like sky-flowers?"
Answer:
TEXT (3554).
IT HAS BEEN PROVED BY US THAT ANY Eternal BEINGS, BEING DEVOID OF ALL CAPACITY, MUST BE FORMLESS. HENCE IT FOLLOWS THAT THE THREE-EYED DEITY' AND OTHER SUCH BEINGS, WHO ARE HELD BY OTHERS TO BE OMNISCIENT, DO NOT EXIST
AT ALL.—(3554)
COMMENTARY.
The other party holds Shankara and others to be Eternal Beings; and it has been proved by us that eternal entities cannot have any capacity at all; as any effective action on their part, - either successively or simultaneous. ly-would be incompatible; being devoid of all capacity' again is what characterises non-existence; hence it follows that Shiva and other eternal beings posited by the other party are non-existent. Thus it is that it is known that they are 'like sky-flowers'.
Tryambaka', 'Three-Eyed Deity', is Shankara, Shiva.—(3554)
