Tripura Rahasya

Hemalekha said,

The discriminating ones among the hearers placed Soonga's arguments before their master and were enlightened by him. Thus they gained peace and happiness. Therefore, beware of arid polemics parading as logic. Use it in the manner in which the holy books have done. That way lies salvation. 

Hemachuda was greatly astonished and said,

• My dear, I did not realize your wisdom earlier. Blessed are you that you are so wise! Blessed am I that I have your company. You say that faith bestows the highest good. How does it do so?
• Where is faith expedient, and where not? The scriptures differ in their teachings; the teachers differ among themselves. Which of them is to be followed and which rejected?
• Each one stamps his own views with the seal of authority and condemns the rest, not only as worthless but also as harmful, my dear!
• That being the case, I cannot decide for myself. What you condemned as the school of the void turns round on others and attacks them.
• Why should not that school be respected? It has its own adherents and its own system of philosophy. Explain to me, dear, all these things clearly. They must indeed be already clear to you.

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Excerpts from Chapter 6, Tripura Rahasya