The Prabodhacandrodaya of Krsna Misra on Other Religious Doctrines (c. 1000 CE)

4. Anti-Vedic doctrines warded off

After he is freed of the affections by Discrimination, Purusa is prepared for the struggle against Delusion. Now that the moral obstacles are removed, the first step towards intellectual enlightenment can be undertaken. At this stage all those schools and sects who are acknowledged as Vedic, are Man’s allies. With their assistance, Man has to convince himself that the non-Vedic schools do not bring him final emancipation.

Learning comes to Man’s rescue. He takes refuge with all the Brahmanical schools in order to escape the claims of the heterdox schools […]

Faith says that good comes out of it when the schools that have their origin in the Vedas join together to overthrow the common enemy, the materialist, even though they are mutually opposed... Thus the Lord of the Universe can be attained through various good systems which are based on the Vedas and have taken diverse paths, just as the ocean is reached by streams of water [… ] Now Man’s external enemies, i.e. the heretical schools, are all destroyed. For the time being he is free from Delusion.

Samsara, which is caused by ignorance, cannot be annihilated by actions which are themselves a result of ignorance. One cannot destroy pitch darkness through darkness. Knowledge and not action is the means of attaining freedom from worldly existence, from bhava and samsara.
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