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THE HINDOO MYTHOLOGY. 301
thou oughtest to acknowledge that there is one everliving
and true God: for if there he no truth, there can be no
falsehood wearing the appearance of truth.
Unbeliever. Well, thy opinions resemble mine; but who
is that Brumhu of whom thou speakest ?
V. He remains in a state of inactivity; is invisible;
destitute of qualities; omnipresent; glorious; the ever-
blessed ; indescribable, and unsearchable.
Unbeliever. If, as thou confessest, the world is false,
what necessity for Briimhu, a God invisible and inactive ?
Where is the utility of such a being ?
The v^dantee, hearing this, remained silent. Perceiving
the ve"dantee's silence, the whole assembly directed its at-
tention to the Noiyayiku pundit, who,'filled with pride,
thus began :—' What sayest thou ? Why dost thou attack
others, when thou hast no system of thine own ? People
laugh at the man who, without perceiving his own error,
charges with error the opinions of others: he is like the
blind man who reproves another on account of the speck
in his eyes.'
Unbeliever. This man appears to be ingenious at objec-
tions: however, hear me. The Madyumiku philosopher
says, that at the dissolution of the universe only vacuum
remains; the Yogaeharii contends, that two ideas cannot
exist at once in the mind, the first being destroyed by the
second; the Sotitrantiku says, that ideas are the images of
things; the Voivashiku, that all material things are frail;
the Digumvurus affirm, that the soul is commensurate with
the body; the Charvvakus, that man is composed only of
thou oughtest to acknowledge that there is one everliving
and true God: for if there he no truth, there can be no
falsehood wearing the appearance of truth.
Unbeliever. Well, thy opinions resemble mine; but who
is that Brumhu of whom thou speakest ?
V. He remains in a state of inactivity; is invisible;
destitute of qualities; omnipresent; glorious; the ever-
blessed ; indescribable, and unsearchable.
Unbeliever. If, as thou confessest, the world is false,
what necessity for Briimhu, a God invisible and inactive ?
Where is the utility of such a being ?
The v^dantee, hearing this, remained silent. Perceiving
the ve"dantee's silence, the whole assembly directed its at-
tention to the Noiyayiku pundit, who,'filled with pride,
thus began :—' What sayest thou ? Why dost thou attack
others, when thou hast no system of thine own ? People
laugh at the man who, without perceiving his own error,
charges with error the opinions of others: he is like the
blind man who reproves another on account of the speck
in his eyes.'
Unbeliever. This man appears to be ingenious at objec-
tions: however, hear me. The Madyumiku philosopher
says, that at the dissolution of the universe only vacuum
remains; the Yogaeharii contends, that two ideas cannot
exist at once in the mind, the first being destroyed by the
second; the Sotitrantiku says, that ideas are the images of
things; the Voivashiku, that all material things are frail;
the Digumvurus affirm, that the soul is commensurate with
the body; the Charvvakus, that man is composed only of