Verse 282

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

ईश्वरादिषु भक्तानां तद्धेतुत्वादिविभ्रमाः ।
वासनामात्रभावाच्च जायन्ते विविधाः कथम् ॥ २८२ ॥

īśvarādiṣu bhaktānāṃ taddhetutvādivibhramāḥ |
vāsanāmātrabhāvācca jāyante vividhāḥ katham || 282 ||

How is it that, entirely from dispositions,—such diverse illusions come about as those that devotees have in regard to god and other beings as being the cause of things and so forth?

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been argued that “Disposition cannot be the cause of Illusion”; this reason is ‘Inconclusive’;—this is shown in the following Text:—[see verse 282 above]

If Disposition were not the cause of Illusion, then how could such Illusions appear, purely out of Dispositions, as ‘God is the cause of all products, omniscient, the receptacle of eternal cognition’ and so forth? In fact, Kumārila himself has denied a creator of the world, like God and other Beings.

In the phrase ‘proceeding entirely from Disposition’, the term ‘entirely’ is for the purpose of excluding a real background.—(282)