Verse 329

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

ग्राह्यलक्षणसंयुक्तं न किञ्चिदिह विद्यते ।
विज्ञानपरिणामोऽयं तस्मात्सर्वः समीक्ष्यते ॥ ३२९ ॥

grāhyalakṣaṇasaṃyuktaṃ na kiñcidiha vidyate |
vijñānapariṇāmo'yaṃ tasmātsarvaḥ samīkṣyate || 329 ||

“There is nothing in this world which is endowed with the character of apprehensibility; and all this is held to be the illusory modification of consciousness.”—(329)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Apart from Consciousness (Cognition), Earth etc. are not found to fulfil the conditions of ‘apprehensibility’,—whereby they could appear (be perceived) as composites;—and Atoms do not exist (for the Vedāntin); hence, by implication, it is concluded that Earth etc. are merely so many reflections in Consciousness.

‘This’—i.e. Earth and the rest.—(329)

The above view of the Vedāntin is controverted in the following—[see verses 330-331 next]