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**Lillie_Steins** · 11-11-2005, 04:54 PM

Mandana: Still i feel a difficulty. If what you say is true, how is it that Jaimini went wrong in his Sutras?

Sankara: Jaimini did not go wrong in his Sutras, for his object was solely to revive the faith in the efficacy of karma as a step towards right knowledge, and not to deny the truths of Vedanta.

Mandana: If, as you say, he approved of the existence of such a conscious Being which in fact is not different from our own Self, why did he ascribe to karma itself the capacity to fructify and thus deny the existence of God?

Sankara: He only showed that one need not postulate the existence of God simply for the purpose of distributing the fruits of karma. He did not deny the existence of God but only showed that it cannot be proved simply by inferential logic, just as Upanishads themselves proclaim that He cannot be known by anyone who does not know the Vedas.

11-11-2005, 04:54 PM	#28
Lillie_Steins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 4,508 Senior Member	Mandana: Still i feel a difficulty. If what you say is true, how is it that Jaimini went wrong in his Sutras? Sankara: Jaimini did not go wrong in his Sutras, for his object was solely to revive the faith in the efficacy of karma as a step towards right knowledge, and not to deny the truths of Vedanta. Mandana: If, as you say, he approved of the existence of such a conscious Being which in fact is not different from our own Self, why did he ascribe to karma itself the capacity to fructify and thus deny the existence of God? Sankara: He only showed that one need not postulate the existence of God simply for the purpose of distributing the fruits of karma. He did not deny the existence of God but only showed that it cannot be proved simply by inferential logic, just as Upanishads themselves proclaim that He cannot be known by anyone who does not know the Vedas.
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