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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXT (3592).
THIS HAS BEEN 'EXPLAINED BY US ABOVE (UNDER Text 3308) WHERE IT HAS BEEN ASSERTED THAT IT IS WITH A TOTALLY DIFFERENT. MOTIVE THAT THE WISE BUDDHISTS MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS, EVEN THOUGH
SUCH ATTEMPT PROVE FUTILE.—(3592)
COMMENTARY.
Then again, we are not proving the existence of the Omniscient Person with a view to ascertain that a certain teaching has been propounded by the Omniscient Person, and then and therefore to follow that teaching in practice. In fact, we ourselves seek to attain the position of the Omniscient Person and to that end we seek to prove that it is possible to get rid of the Defects and attain the excellent qualities (that mark the Omniscient Person). And the reason for this lies in the fact that the Buddhists have recourse to activities tending to the fulgiment of the several aims of man,-not on the strength of mere words, but on the basis of Inferences from the capacity of things. It has already been explained in what way such reasons as 'cognisability and the rest can lead to conclusions.
It has been argued under Text 3238, that-“When He has passed through the Ten Stages, and Love and other Defects have become destroyed, then rapt in meditation... He would not be able to impart any teachings"-The answer to this is that this argument also has been put forward by you, through your ignorance of our doctrine. The Blessed Lord is not held by us to be standing upon the Ten Stages; what we hold is that the Ten Stages are occupied during the Bodhisattva-Stage, and beyond and above that lies the Buddha-Stage, the state of Perfect Enlightenment, Buddha-kood.-(3592)
It has been argued under Text 3240, that-"What has been asserted by one who knows only a part cannot be the assertion of the Omniscient Person".
The following Text points out that this also has been already answered:
TEXT (3593).
As REGARDS THE ARGUMENT THAT "WHAT IS ASSERTED BY ONE WHO KNOWS ONLY A PART CANNOT BE REGARDED AS THE ASSERTION OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON", -THE ANSWER TO THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN, THAT IT WOULD BE DUE TO THE ACTUAL PRESENCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS.
(3593)
COMMENTARY. . The same explanation is reiterated in the following
