0177 Verse 215

Original

यदि प्रत्यक्षगम्यश्च सत्यतः पुरुषो भवेत् ।
तत्किमर्थं विवादोऽयं तत्सत्त्वादौ प्रवर्त्तते ॥ २१५ ॥

yadi pratyakṣagamyaśca satyataḥ puruṣo bhavet |
tatkimarthaṃ vivādo’yaṃ tatsattvādau pravarttate || 215 ||

If the soul were really amenable to perception, then wherefore should this dispute arise regarding its existence and other things?—(215)

Kamalaśīla

It has been explained that it is not right to regard the ‘Soul’ as forming the object of ‘I-consciousness’, because this latter is devoid of the form of the ‘Soul’, The following Text proceeds to show that the same cannot be right also because in that case there would be no dispute (between us and the Naiyāyika):—[see verse 215 above]

‘Existence and other things’—i.e. regarding its Existence, Eternality, Omnipresence and so forth.—(215)