Issue#1 Corollary#1

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THE BUDDHIST CRITICISM OF THE VIEW OF THE HINDU SYSTEMS THAT

THE VISUAL ORGAN IS PRAAPYAKAARI:

 

 

CRITICISM #1

The sense-organs are nothing more than the physical entities

that they are associated with. In other words, the visual

sense-organ is the eye-ball itself and nothing more than that.

Therefore, it is ridiculous to hold that the pupil goes out

of its socket to have direct contact with its object.

 

 

CRITICISM #2

The visual organ cannot be prApyakAri for in that case it

would not be able to apprehend objects bigger than itself such

as the mountains, the moon etc.

 

 

CRITICISM #3

The visual organ takes the same amount of time to apprehend

objects at varying distances e.g. a nearby tree or the far-off

moon. When one closes and opens the eye, the tree and the

moon are apprehended simultaneously. Therefore, the visual organ

cannot be prApyakAri.

 

 

CRITICISM #4

The visual organ cannot be prApyakAri because it can apprehend

objects even behind obstructions such as glass, mica etc. which

it would not have been able to do so had it been prApyakAri.

 

Hence, for the above reasons, the visual organ is clearly

aprApyakAri.

 

 

regards,

Hari-vAyu smaraNa,

B.N.Hebbar