0932 Verse 1297

Original

स्वसामान्यात्मनोर्युक्तं ज्ञानं चैकं न वेदकम् ।
सविकल्पान्यथाभावे प्राक्तनापरविन्न हि ॥ १२९७ ॥

svasāmānyātmanoryuktaṃ jñānaṃ caikaṃ na vedakam |
savikalpānyathābhāve prāktanāparavinna hi || 1297 ||

One and the same cognition cannot comprehend both the specific individuality and the universal; because, if such a cognition were ‘conceptual’, there could be no comprehension of the former,—on the other hand, if it were otherwise, there could be no comprehension of the latter.—(1297)

Kamalaśīla

The following might be urged:—“As a matter of fact, the subsequent cognitions envisage both (the Universal as well as the Particular), inasmuch as what they apprehend is the Particular as characterised by the Universal; so that they cannot be said to apprehend the Specific Individuality only”.

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 1297 above]

It is not right that one and the same Cognition should apprehend the Specific Individuality as well as the Universal.—Because, would that Cognition be Conceptual or Non-conceptual? If it were Conceptual,—Determinate,—then there could be no apprehension of the ‘former’,—i.e. the Specific Individuality.—If ‘otherwise’,—i.e. if it is Non-conceptual,—then there could be no apprehension of the ‘latter’—i.e. of the Universal.—(1297)