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EXAMINATION OF THE 'PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1575
TEXTS (3633-3634). IT IS THE 'SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY' ITSELF, AS DIFFERENTIATED FROM HETEROGENEOUS AND NON-MOMENTARY THINGS, WHICH IS SPOKEN OF HERE AS UNIVERSAL', ON THE GROUND OF ITS LEADING TO CALMNESS AND DISPASSION.—THE COGNITION THAT APPREHENDS THIS AND JS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE FORCE OF MEDICATION, AND APPEARS ONLY IN GREAT MYSTICS, ENVISAGES THE SPECIFIC
INDIVIDUALITY ITSELF.—(3633-3634)
COMMENTARY. That same "Specific Individuality', which, differentiated from things of other kinds, becomes the basis of the notion of Uniformity', and is then called the Universal'. Hence the consciousness of the Mystic which apprehends it and which becomes clearly manifested by the force of his Meditation, envisages the Specific Individuality itself; hence there is nothing incongruous in the same Cognition apprehending the Universal as well as the Specific Individuality.
It has been argued under Text 3253, that "the said uniform cognition would be either true or false; if it is true, it goes against perceptiblo facts, as it makes all things one".
All this also has been answered by what has been just explained; because what the mystic consciousness apprehends is the Specific Individuality(3633-3634)
If what is meant by Mystic Consciousness envisaging Specific Individuality is that it apprehends that Universal which we have declared to be illusory', not capable of being described as that or notthat -- and which other philosophers have regarded as real,-then the said idea cannot be accepted.
This is what the Author points out in the following: -
TEXT (3635).
WHAT IS APPREHENDED BY THE MYSTIC CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT THAT
UNIVERSAL WHICH IS INCAPABLE OF BEING SPOKEN OF AS THAT' OR 'NOT-THAT' AND SO TORTH, AND WHICH OTHER PEOPLE HAVE REGARDED
AS real'.-(3635)
COMMENTARY. And so forth' is meant to include "eternal' or 'non-eternal', etc. etc.(3635)
