Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya by Haribhadra Sūri
Chapter 5 – A Line of Demarcation between the first four and last four Yogadṛṣṭis [73 of 121]
Chapter 5.4 – The Fallacious argument (kutarka) [29 of 32]
An advice of Haribhadrasūri [7 of 10]
From the niścaya nāya (real point of view) all omniscients are equal [5 of 8]
A votary may argue with other votary that the omniscient person, whom I worship, possesses virtues and knowledge far better than the omniscient whom you worship. Therefore, there is difference between the omniscient person whom I worship and you worship. To prove such argumentation of votaries erroneous, Haribhadrasūri states the following lines.: The non-omniscient (i.e., Votary) can never comprehend the details of nature of an omniscient person in its entirety. In this sense no non–omniscient votary can claim himself as a real knower of an omniscient person.[1] Therefore every votary who has faith in an omniscient person, in a general fashion, is placed in the same category, namely “a worshipper of an omniscient” by the wise men in so far as the faith of the votary is concerned.[2]
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