Verse 1358

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

सर्वात्मना हि सारूप्ये ज्ञानमज्ञानतां व्रजेत् ।
साम्यं केनचिदंशने सर्वं स्यात्सर्ववेदकम् ॥ १३५८ ॥

sarvātmanā hi sārūpye jñānamajñānatāṃ vrajet |
sāmyaṃ kenacidaṃśane sarvaṃ syātsarvavedakam || 1358 ||

If there were absolute sameness of form, then cognition would become non-cognition; as for partial sameness of form, that would make every cognition apprehensive of everything.—(1358)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

‘Absolute sameness of form’ would consist in the fact of the Cognition being ‘excluded’ from exactly those homogeneous things from which the

cognised object is ‘excluded’,—while ‘partial sameness’ would consist in ‘exclusion’ from only a few of those.—(1358)

Question:—“If that is so, then, why has the validity of the Cognition been said to consist in its being of the same form as the Object?”

Answer:—[see verses 1359-1361 next]