0897 Verse 1243

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प्रत्यक्षं कल्पनापोढं वेद्यतेऽतिपरिस्फुटम् ।
अन्यत्रासक्तमनसाऽप्यक्षैर्नीलादिवेदनात् ॥ १२४३ ॥

pratyakṣaṃ kalpanāpoḍhaṃ vedyate’tiparisphuṭam |
anyatrāsaktamanasā’pyakṣairnīlādivedanāt || 1243 ||

That sense-perception is ‘free from conceptual content’ is recognised very clearly; since it is found that even when one has his mind attracted by something else, he has the perception of the blue colour and other things through his senses.—(1243)

Kamalaśīla

The following might be urged:—“Conceptual Content may be as described. But how does Sense-perception become proved to be ‘free from Conceptual Content’?”

Answer:—[see verse 1243 above]

This shows that the absence of Conceptual Content is clearly perceived in one’s own experience.—(1243)