0692 Verse 947

Original

स्वरूपसत्त्वमात्रेण न स्यात्किञ्चिद्विशेषणम् ।
स्वबुद्ध्या रज्यते येन विशेष्यं तद्विशेषणम् ॥ ९४७ ॥

svarūpasattvamātreṇa na syātkiñcidviśeṣaṇam |
svabuddhyā rajyate yena viśeṣyaṃ tadviśeṣaṇam || 947 ||

“In fact, nothing can serve as a qualification. by its mere existence; it is only when it colours the qualified with its own cognition that it becomes its qualification.”—[Ślokavārtika-Apoha 87]—(947)

Kamalaśīla

The Blue does not become a qualification of the Lotus by its mere existence;—what then?—When one thing, on being cognised, colours the qualified thing with the cognition tinged with its own form, then alone it is said to be the qualification of that thing.—(947)

This process of qualification is not possible in the case of Apoha; this is what is shown in the following—[see verse 948 next]