1672 Verse 2626

Original

एकस्तु वास्तवो नैव सम्बन्ध इह युज्यते ।
असङ्कीर्णतयाऽर्थानां भेदेऽसम्बन्धता भवेत् ॥ २६२६ ॥

ekastu vāstavo naiva sambandha iha yujyate |
asaṅkīrṇatayā’rthānāṃ bhede’sambandhatā bhavet || 2626 ||

It is not possible for the relationship to be real and one. because the things denoted being distinct and diverse, there would be no relationship at all.—(2626)

Kamalaśīla

Question:—“Why is not the Relationship regarded to be really one only,—and why should it be regarded as illusory (assumed)”?

Answer:—[see verse 2626 above]:

The one Relationship, when there, could subsist either in different, or non-different, things.—It cannot subsist in different things; because each thing rests within itself in its own distinct form; and there can be no intermixture.—If it were in non-different things, then, as the entity would be one only, wherewith would there be any Relationship? So that there would be no Relationship at all.—(2626)