Nyaya Science of Thought

SR No.: 006711
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1916
Total Pages: 68
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

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THE SCIENCE OF THOUGHT.
scripture), because it amounts to testimony which falls short of truth.
The characteristics of a true Scripture are :
(i) that it should embody the word of an omniscient Teacher;
(ii) that its teaching should be true to concrete nature, and not by way of a general discourse on certain abstract propositions of philosophy or on the metaphysical aspect of religion;
(iii) that it should speak out the precise truth without fear or favour; and
(iv) that its sense should be plain, and not concealed, so that it should not become the cause of misleading any one.
The special attributes of a true Teachers are :
(i) that he should have evolved out omniscience which is a guarantee of fulness and perfection of knowledge,
(ii) that he should be absolutely devoid of all personal motives for love and hatred in any form,
*It may be pointed out here that no disembodied spirit, hence fully liberated Soul, can ever become a teacher, because a purely disembodied spirit is incapable of teaching for the want of a material body, the medium of communication with men. Hence, Scripture is the word of omniscient, deified men, preaching truth before the attainment of final emancipation as pure disembodied Spirit. This is tantamount to saying that it is not possible for an eternally and naturally free Supreme Being, as some imagine their God or Gods to be, to be the author of the Scripture of Truth.