1314 Verse 2003

Original

नहि तद्रूपमन्यस्य येन तद्वेदने परम् ।
संवेद्येत विभिन्नत्वाद्भावानां परमार्थतः ॥ २००३ ॥

nahi tadrūpamanyasya yena tadvedane param |
saṃvedyeta vibhinnatvādbhāvānāṃ paramārthataḥ || 2003 ||

The form of any other thing is not such that upon its cognition, something else would become cognised; because, in reality, things are different from one another.—(2003)

Kamalaśīla

The following might bo urged Just as there is self-cognition of the Cognition itself, so would there be cognition of. the External Thing also, without there being an apprehender and an apprehended”.

The answer to that is as follows:—[see verse 2003 above]

Though it has been assumed that there is the single form of ‘Entity’—as differentiated from ‘non-entity’—which is common to all things,—yet in reality, they are all different among themselves; hence there is no ‘one-ness’ among them. This is what is meant by the phrase—‘in reality’,—(2003)