Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya by Haribhadra Sūri
Chapter 5 – A Line of Demarcation between the first four and last four Yogadṛṣṭis [51 of 121]
Chapter 5.4 – The Fallacious argument (kutarka) [7 of 32]
Upādhyaya Yaśovijaya presents the negative impacts of a fallacious argument in a poetic way in his text Dvātriṃśad–dvātriṃśikā.
It is said:
“śamā''rāmā'nalajvālā himāni jñānapaṅkajo |
śraddhāśalyaṃ smayollasaḥ kutarkaḥ sunayā'rgalā ||23.2||”
A Fallacious argument is like fire flame that destroys garden of equanimity. It is like snow to shatter a lotus of knowledge. It is like a painful thorn for faith. It raises vanity. It intervenes as an obstruction (like a bar used to fasten a door) for obtaining right stand point.
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