Verse 3623-3624

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

अन्योन्यपरिहारेण स्थितलक्षणतोऽथवा ।
एकस्मिन्न सह स्थानं विरोधस्तेषु सम्भवेत् ॥ ३६२३ ॥
एकज्ञानावभासित्वं नतु तेषां विरोधिता ।
शुच्यशुच्यहिशिख्यादेश्चक्षुषा सकृदीक्षणात् ॥ ३६२४ ॥

anyonyaparihāreṇa sthitalakṣaṇato'thavā |
ekasminna saha sthānaṃ virodhasteṣu sambhavet || 3623 ||
ekajñānāvabhāsitvaṃ natu teṣāṃ virodhitā |
śucyaśucyahiśikhyādeścakṣuṣā sakṛdīkṣaṇāt || 3624 ||

In the case of things that are mutually exclusive by their nature, or in those that can never coexist,—there may be incompatibility; but there is no incompatibility in both figuring in the one and the same cognition; because there is perception through the eye of such contraries as (a) the pure and the impure things, (b) the serpent and the peacock and so forth.—(3623-3624)

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Incompatibility among things is of two kinds—(1) mutual exclusiveness, and (2) non-coexistence. Those things that are mutually exclusive,—their unification is clearly incompatible; those again that are non-coexistent, their coexistence is incompatible. But by figuring in the same cognition, things do not become either unified or coexistent. Hence there is no incompatibility in their figuring in the same cognition. In fact, it is actually seen that even incompatible things figure in the same cognition; for instance, the Pure and the Impure things, which are mutually exclusive,—and the Serpent and the Peacock, which can never live together,—are perceived, through the Eye, at one and the same time.—‘And so forth’ includes such pair of opposites as Light and Shade and the rest.—(3623-3624)