Comparison and Likeness

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Sekhar-ji wrote:

Knowledge it self is a separate means of knowing

Rupam Rupam maghava bodhaveethi is beginning of Veda, means two forms

combine

to make us know a thing.

1 word or symbol or sound or sign or all these combined form

2 Real shape of a jar or car or banana

First one identifies the second one to form an image in the head for

further

explanation of the properties of the second one.Thus two unite as one such

as

apple is apple.

Primarily all this process depends on Anumana Pramana only.

Doubt that god(s) exist may form the basis of agnosticism ? the belief

that one

cannot determine the existence of god(s). It may also form or affect the

basis

of atheism, which can entail either not believing in god(s) or believing

that no

god(s) exist(s). Alternatively, doubt over the existence of god(s) may

lead to

acceptance of a particular religion: compare Pascal's Pensées. Doubt of a

specific religion, scripturally or deistically, may bring into question the

truth of that religion's set of beliefs. On the other hand, doubt as to

some

religious doctrines but the acceptance of others may lead to the growth of

heresy and/or the splitting off of sects. Thus proto-Protestants doubted

papal

authority, and substituted alternative methods of governance in their new

(but

still recognizably similar) churches.

 

All this comes under anumana pramana

 

thank you for reading

sekhar

 

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Namaste Sekhar-ji,

You write:

Knowledge it self is a separate means of knowing

 

What can that mean? To me it seems to be along the lines of - a banana is

a fruit, an apple is a fruit, a pear is a fruit and fruit itself is

another form of fruit. That can't be right. You can't reduce a genus to

a species.

 

What you are doing is offering some examples of comparing and contrasting

but your mistake leads me to consider that you perhaps have not got _why_

anumana is a separate means of knowledge or why it differs from perception

and inference. To put it another way unless you already have the concept

(i.e. capacity exercised in acts of judgement) of _likeness_ how are you

going to discover likeness in the manifold objects that you encounter.

 

Accustom your eyes to the dim light of the cellar and the form of the

black cat will be revealed to you.

 

Best Wishes,

Michael.