Points of Controversy
6.9. Of the Eye Faculty as Visible
Controverted Point: That the eye faculty is visible.
The discourse is verbatim identical with Kv 6.7, except with the “eye faculty” being substituted for “space.” The opponent’s rejoinders are severally as follows:
Andhaka: But do we not see earth, a stone, a mountain? water? fire blazing? trees waving in the wind? The eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body? anyone advancing, retreating, looking forward, looking backward, stretching forth, retracting?