2171 Verse 3554

Original

सर्वशक्तिवियोगेन नीरूपत्वं हि साधितम् ।
नित्यानां तेन नो सन्ति परेष्टास्त्रयम्बकादयः ॥ ३५५४ ॥

sarvaśaktiviyogena nīrūpatvaṃ hi sādhitam |
nityānāṃ tena no santi pareṣṭāstrayambakādayaḥ || 3554 ||

It has been proved by us that any eternal beings, being devoid of all capacity, must be formless. Hence it follows that the ‘three-eyed deity’ and other such beings, who are held by others to be omniscient, do not exist at all.—(3554)

Kamalaśīla

The other party holds Śaṅkara and others to be Eternal Beings;—and it has been proved by us that eternal entities cannot have any capacity at all; as any effective action on their part,—either successively or simultaneously—would be incompatible;—‘being devoid of all capacity’ again is what characterises non-existence; hence it follows that Śiva and other eternal beings posited by the other party are non-existent. Thus it is that it is known that they are ‘like sky-flowers’,

‘Tryambaka’, ‘Three-Eyed Deity’, is Śaṅkara, Śiva.—(3554)