Mmgl Annex Ii (29-1) 4. About Other Religions Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

Aravana Adigal told Manimegala about other religions.

(a) Two measures
"Oh maiden, listen carefully. Lord Buddha brought two measures- first the perfect perception and the second perfect opinion."

(b) Perception measure
Pointing out to an object and saying "This is that, " this feeling is called perception to know that thing only. The name, group, nature, and action of a thing are subject to inference and opinion. So they left the perception as it not the only criterion.

(c) Opinion measure
The opinion measure is reason, action and general. If one goes deeper into it, it may go in fault also. What is not at fault? It is like ‘Fire's smoke' to know the ‘action's inference.' All other measures arise out of the opinion. So, they are all hidden in this opinion measure.

(d) Five parts
To understand what is what, an inferential opinion is helped by relationship, reason, comparison, confirmed judgment, and conclusion. To know and then say is relationship, which is like saying, ‘This Mountain is having fire.' The reason suitably says, ‘The smoke exists there and so this mountain has fire.' The comparison says, ‘Like the perfect sacrifice hall.' Instead of saying like the above, if it is said, ‘This Mountain also is having smoke, it becomes a confirmed judgment. To say, ‘whatever has smoke, it has got fire, ' then it becomes conclusion.

(e) Dissimilar comparison
To say, "That which has no fire, that has no smoke like water." By the process of elimination, it becomes a dissimilar comparison.

(f) Relative term
When a clear action gives its natural meaning, then it becomes a relative term.
To say, ‘Sound is not permanent' is relationship. When it is said, ‘It arises when raised' by showing its action, then it becomes a relative term.

(g) Existent and non-existent extension
‘Anything and anything is done, like the impermanent pot' is the extension of relationship. It is opposite is ‘it is not done, like the sky.'

(h) Non-existent truth
To say in a vacant place, ‘No pot' indicates good relationship. ‘for it has not appeared' is the extension of relationship. To say, ‘Whatever is, it is seen like the fruit on hand' it is a non-relative extension.

(i) To confirm the reason
In this way, reason confirms a thing. For the smoke's action, it has confirmed the truth that the fire exists. How it is? Because of the factor, ‘Where is smoke, there is fire' which is an associate event. ‘Where is no smoke, there is no fire, ' is an opposite associate event. The reason of the smoke confirmed the truth of the fire.

(j) Action-reason faulted
Like this if reason can confirm an object, it is only the action of the fire which spread up and sideways, and so it can definitely be proved that there must be fire below the smoke.

(k) Existent fault
If the existent statement is at fault, for instance one person saw a donkey and a maiden side by side. Later on when he saw the donkey, he should have the courage to say that maiden also is there, but this boldness does not suit the occasion.

(l) Distinction at fault
If one says that "In a place there is no fire, there is also no smoke, " this special distinctive meaningful statement, and if he says at a different place with his visual experience, ‘there is no dog's tail on the donkey's neck, also there is no fox tail, ' he should not infer that ‘Fox tail is in the dog's tail.' So the direct inference to see things clearly cannot be compared in such cases.

(k) Existent and conclusion
With the relation, the Existent and conclusion they get merged with the comparison. So they are also unsuitable.

3. What is good side?
There are good as well as bad inside the relation, reason, comparison. In that several quality outcome and in another case, where differences are seen, whatever seen by the eyes simply, that is better taken boldly as relation. This good relationship adopts one of the two- sound permanency or impermanent permanency. The similarity is sound. The things dependent on it are permanency and impermanence.

5. The reason that happens
The eventual good reason is whatever relative thing selected should stand stably and should come out of concomitant thing and not from opposite thing.

If concomitant can prove one, the general category of relative things will be similar. ‘if a sound is proved impermanent, it will be similar to the impermanent pot.' To say opposite side ‘whatever not permanent, that is not done like the space—it will mean like that. Whatever is done and seen in that action, the concerned relation remains inside the two, but not in the opposite side of impermanence.

6. Good comparison
Good comparison are of two kinds—similarity and dissimilarity. The similarity is that agreeable rule, "Sound is impermanent, when made, it means to say like ‘pot.' In the dissimilar example, the relative nature will not go where the possible nature cannot go. Both the kinds are suitable to prove the relative things.

7. Relative false kind
Bad relation, bad reason, bad comparison they are false relation, false reason and false comparison. In this false relation is of nine kinds. They are perception fault, inference fault, self-contradictory fault, worldly fault, scriptural fault, infamous attribute, infamous importance, infamous contribution, and infamous relationship.