Verse 2041

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

यथाहि भवतां ज्ञानं निराकारं च तत्त्वतः ।
वेत्ति चाभूतमाकारं भूतं संर्व तथैव चेत् ॥ २०४१ ॥

yathāhi bhavatāṃ jñānaṃ nirākāraṃ ca tattvataḥ |
vetti cābhūtamākāraṃ bhūtaṃ saṃrva tathaiva cet || 2041 ||

“just as your cognition, which is formless in reality, apprehends forms which are non-objective,—in the same way would it apprehend all things.”—(2041)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following Text presents Bhadanta-Śubhagupta’s answer to the above—[see verse 2041 above]

Bhadanta Śubhagupta has argued as follows:—“According to you, Idealists, Cognition is really formless,—as is clear from such assertions as ‘Cognition is held to be non-elemental, like the purity of Gold and Ākāśa’;—and yet it apprehends forms; in the same manner it would apprehend the external thing also—(2041)

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verses 2042-2044 next]