0273 Verse 343

Original

स्कन्धेभ्यः पुद्गलो नान्य इत्येषाऽनन्यसूचना ।
स्कन्धो न पुद्गलश्चेति व्यक्ता तस्येयमन्यता ॥ ३४३ ॥

skandhebhyaḥ pudgalo nānya ityeṣā’nanyasūcanā |
skandho na pudgalaśceti vyaktā tasyeyamanyatā || 343 ||

Your words that “the pudgala is not different from the thought-phases’ are a clear assertion of its non-difference; while the words ‘the thought-phase is not the pudgala’ clearly asserts its difference.—(343)

Kamalaśīla

Further, when you assert that ‘the Pudgala is incapable of being spoken of’, you loudly proclaim quite clearly that the Pudgala is different from the Thought-phases. This is what is pointed out in the following:—[see verse 344 next]