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(ii)
This book is a missile sharpened and well aimed at. The
Lord says "to eject the bad and to sustain the good." He comes
into this world again and again. Yes. He comes into this world
when he is engrossed in the fear of total annihilation of the
good. But this good is often eclipsed by currents of evil more
often than in such times of abnormal calamity and the Lord is
oblized to send his agents oftener into this world. There is
one piculiarity in this agency. These agents are small lumi-
naries. sometimes negligible from the point of view of the
world. but potentially they are as great and profound as the
Lord himself, because the Lord has only one missile and that
is the Veda Even the smallest agent he sends out into this
world is fully equipped with that one weapon. Though it is
one weapon. It is thousand-edged,
The semi-non believer is a very piculiar phenomenon.
He is both a scholar and a lay man The difference is so subtle
that you are taken aback to find his disposition as that of a lay
man, but for all appearances and equipments, you know him to
be well-varsed in the sacred lore. Bubdhism has developed
a great philosophy, as engrossing as that of the Vedic religion.
And yet it is a religion for the lay man Who is a lay man and
what is a scholar? What is it that separates the two? Man
is lorn rational and so argumentative. And argument is not
final This is laid down by Vyasa in the aphorism "TARAKA.
PRATISTHANAT." What is asserted by Kapila is thrown out
dy Kanada The high argumentative and intellectual faculties
of even sages are erring. The debator who has the higher in-
tellect carries the day and he in his turn is put down by another
who is more intellectual.
It is ever like this and so Veda must be accepted as the
final judgement. Asthika therefore is defined as one who belie.
ves in the Veaa. Veda treats of the natural and the unnatural,
the tangible and the intangible, the visible and the invisible.
These semi-non-believers accept the verdict of the Veda. in
the former things and deny it in the latter things. Vedapurusha
said this and that. This you find cogent and the natural con-
clusion is that also must be cogent. But it does not suit you
and so you give it up.
This book is a missile sharpened and well aimed at. The
Lord says "to eject the bad and to sustain the good." He comes
into this world again and again. Yes. He comes into this world
when he is engrossed in the fear of total annihilation of the
good. But this good is often eclipsed by currents of evil more
often than in such times of abnormal calamity and the Lord is
oblized to send his agents oftener into this world. There is
one piculiarity in this agency. These agents are small lumi-
naries. sometimes negligible from the point of view of the
world. but potentially they are as great and profound as the
Lord himself, because the Lord has only one missile and that
is the Veda Even the smallest agent he sends out into this
world is fully equipped with that one weapon. Though it is
one weapon. It is thousand-edged,
The semi-non believer is a very piculiar phenomenon.
He is both a scholar and a lay man The difference is so subtle
that you are taken aback to find his disposition as that of a lay
man, but for all appearances and equipments, you know him to
be well-varsed in the sacred lore. Bubdhism has developed
a great philosophy, as engrossing as that of the Vedic religion.
And yet it is a religion for the lay man Who is a lay man and
what is a scholar? What is it that separates the two? Man
is lorn rational and so argumentative. And argument is not
final This is laid down by Vyasa in the aphorism "TARAKA.
PRATISTHANAT." What is asserted by Kapila is thrown out
dy Kanada The high argumentative and intellectual faculties
of even sages are erring. The debator who has the higher in-
tellect carries the day and he in his turn is put down by another
who is more intellectual.
It is ever like this and so Veda must be accepted as the
final judgement. Asthika therefore is defined as one who belie.
ves in the Veaa. Veda treats of the natural and the unnatural,
the tangible and the intangible, the visible and the invisible.
These semi-non-believers accept the verdict of the Veda. in
the former things and deny it in the latter things. Vedapurusha
said this and that. This you find cogent and the natural con-
clusion is that also must be cogent. But it does not suit you
and so you give it up.