Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya by Haribhadra Sūri
Chapter 5 – A Line of Demarcation between the first four and last four Yogadṛṣṭis [117 of 121]
Chapter 5.8 – Sarvajña (The Omniscience) [16 of 20]
The task of determining the essential nature of the supra-sensuous being, namely omniscience, is not within the scope of inferential knowledge [2 of 4]
(1) It is not the case that the conclusion derived by the inferential knowledge always remains final. Even in the case of sensuous entities a right determination of their nature is impossible through inferential knowledge. If it is incapable of determining the nature of sensuous entities, how it can determine the nature of supra sensuous entities? It has been said by sage Bhartṛhari, a man of rich wit, in the present context “even after people skilled in the art of inference have inferred a thing through hard labour it so happens that those more skilled than them prove the same thing to be otherwise.” The statement of sage Bhartṛhari reminds us of a similar type of statement made by our author in the treatise Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya. Our author has made it while explaining the role of illustration in the fallacious argument.
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