Verse 1661

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

तत्प्रतिक्षेपमात्रात्मा स चेदत्र विवक्षितः ।
सर्वदा वस्तुताऽस्तित्वे गम्येतास्यानिवर्त्तनात् ॥ १६६१ ॥

tatpratikṣepamātrātmā sa cedatra vivakṣitaḥ |
sarvadā vastutā'stitve gamyetāsyānivarttanāt || 1661 ||

If what is meant by ‘non-modification’ is only the absence of modification,—then, as the entity concerned is eternal, this should be understood to be there at all times, as it never ceases.—(1661)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following might be urged—“Non-modification is not of the nature of ‘something contrary to modification’, it is only of the nature of the ‘absence of modification’; so that the definition cannot he impossible”.

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 1661 above]

‘Tatpratikṣepamātrātmā’—‘Tat’ is modification;—‘Pratikṣepa’ is denial, absence;—‘mātra’ is only;—that which has this absence of modification for its essence.

‘This’—i.e. the ‘non-modification’ in the form of ‘absence of modifications’—should be always of one and the same form; as there can be no modification of the Soul.—(1661)