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Jagadish Chandra Chatterji
Hindu Realism
B—The Synthetic Aspect
Qualifications Needed for Realisation.
Qualification of the Candidate for the Knowledge or Wisdom. Teachers of Wisdom. Its Transmission.
15. But a man seeks this wisdom only when he is really tired of specific forms of existence—the feeling of this tiredness being realised not so much as a clear fact of experience in his surface consciousness but as a deeply rooted Samskara.
Such a man, thus tired of being compelled to be born in specific forms of life, is also truly fit for Wisdom. And such fit candidates for Wisdom, like other types of beings, have existed always in the Universe. For, as we have seen, no types of being can ever be really wanting in the Universe. And if they have existed for ever, they have never had to grope after Wisdom in the dark.1 If they groped long enough they might have hit upon it.
But this has never been necessary. For if candidates for Wisdom have existed always, there have also always been perfected Rishis, who have already realised this Wisdom by direct experience.
These Rishis have taught the worthy candidates who in their turn have learned and realised the truths and then, themselves becoming Rishis and teachers, have taught others. And thus, like the Eternal Veda itself, the line of teachers and pupils has continued till this day.
Footnotes
1. Kandali, p. 282, etc.
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