Verse 3637

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

विकल्पात्मा च सामान्यमवाच्यं यत्प्रकीर्त्तितम् ।
नित्यानुगतिरूपं तन्नीरूपं प्रतिपादितम् ॥ ३६३७ ॥

vikalpātmā ca sāmānyamavācyaṃ yatprakīrttitam |
nityānugatirūpaṃ tannīrūpaṃ pratipāditam || 3637 ||

Because it has been already explained that the universal which consists of the conceptual content and is incapable of being spoken of, and is in the form of permanent contiguity,—is formless (featureless).—(3637)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been shown that the Cognition in question, as apprehending an unreal and purely fanciful thing, becomes beset with Conceptual Content and Error. It is next shown in another way, that it becomes beset with Error for the following reason also:—[see verse 3637 above]

It has just been said that the Universal, which is incapable of being spoken of’—that is, the Universal which cannot be spoken of as either ‘this’ or ‘not-this’,—forms the very essence of Conceptual Content;—‘because"—inasmuch as—this has been already explained under the section on ‘Apoha’,—‘therefore the said Consciousness becomes beset with Conceptual Content—such is the connection with what has gone before (in the preceding text).

The reason for this is as follows;—As the Universal is of the nature of Conceptual Content, the Mystic Consciousness that envisaged it would also be of the nature of Conceptual Content; because it is apprehended as of that nature. As regards the Conceptual Content, wherever it appears, it presents as good and desirable, what is not-good and not-desirable; hence it is always wrong; hence the said Apprehension becomes beset with Error.

As regards the Universal postulated by other people, in the form perpetual contiguity,—that also has been shown, under the chapter on ‘the Universal’, as being entirely feature-less, characterless. So that if the Apprehension envisages this Universal it becomes all the more clearly ‘beset with Conceptual Content and Error’.—(3637)