পাতা:Vanga Sahitya Parichaya Part 1.djvu/৩৫

INTRODUCTION. 27 God and merely performing the acts recommended in the false Vedas he does not advance a step, but suffers from repeated agonies of births and deaths by passing through a never-ceasing cycle of births. “The Sādhu asks the Inquirer—“How do you obtain a knowledge of the Deity?” “The Inquirer says—'I obtain a knowledge of my god Krisna through my mind.” “The Sādhu—“When the mind acts in concord with the five senses, such as the ear, the eye, the tongue etc., then only can it perceive sounds, objects of sight and taste etc. When the mind does not join with the senses, it cannot percieve the external objects. Tell me then how without the relative action of the five senses, can you perceive God by your mind alone.” “The Inquirer– I now understand that without the help of the five The existence of God senses the mind alone can have no conception of the unreal. Deity. I understand it quite well now but beg to submit my reasons here. When the mind acts with the help of the ear, it becomes cognisant of sound which is the virtue of the sky. So through the ear the mind cannot realise God. When the mind acts with the help of the skin it becomes aware of touch which is the virtue of the air. But this does not give one any conception of the Deity. And so on. I now fully understand that the five senses cannot help in the realization of Divine quality. I therefore feel that I am without any knowledge of God and that to me therefore the existence of God is unreal.” “The Sādhu—“If a child after coming to this earth from his mother's womb has never heard a sound owing to his deafness, can he read the letters Ka, Kha, Gha etc., when he is in his 25th year? Or can he call his father and mother by the usuals terms papa and mamma? I also want to know from you whether a man who is born blind can contemplate the darkblue colour ascribed to Krisna, which, as they say, is like that of the newlyformed cloud.” “The Inquirer—“The man who is born deaf and has never heard Ka, Kha, Ga, Gha ete. and papa and manma uttered by others can never read Kh, Kha, Ga, Gha, as we do, nor call his parents papa and mamma like us. And one who has never seen any object of dark-blue colour like that of a newly-formed cloud can never contemplate the dark-blue colour attributed to Krisna.” “The Sādhu–How then did you say that without the help of the senses one could realize Krisna, the god of the universe? A man born deaf cannot read the letters nor call his parents and friends by the terms by which they