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Other qualities, such as doing all works and the like, although indeed following their substrate, are explicitly to be meditated on in special meditations only. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the idea of the Imperishable. The question here is whether the two meditations, suggested by these sections, are different or not.
If, on the other hand, it be not thus known, how should there be a consciousness of Nescience in the absence of that which defines it, viz. knowledge of the substrate or of the object of Nescience? Well, we reply, all this holds good on our side also.
'what is the substrate of the erroneous imagination of a world? and for one answer to this question, viz.
Several attributes which do not contradict each other may serve quite well as characteristic marks defining one thing, the nature of which is not otherwise known, without the plurality of the attributes in any way involving plurality of the thing defined; for as those attributes are at once understood to belong to one substrate, we naturally combine them within that one substrate.
In so far as the cognition of one thing has something real for its object, and the cognition of all things is of the same kind, and moreover is comprised in the cognition of one thing; in so far it can be said that everything is known through one thing being known. Through the cognition of the real shell we do not cognise the unreal silver of which the shell is the substrate.
The two clauses 'to its own substrate' and 'at the present moment' have to be supplied in this second definition also. Consciousness is not eternal. It was further maintained by the purvapakshin that as consciousness is self-established it has no antecedent non-existence and so on, and that this disproves its having an origin.
The comment of the Sru. 'At the present moment' means 'the connexion with the object of knowledge belonging to the present time. Without the addition of 'to its own substrate' the definition might imply that a state of consciousness is manifest to another person also; to exclude this the clause is added.
And that there exists a pure consciousness devoid of substrate and objects alike, we have already refuted on the ground that of a thing of this kind we have absolutely no knowledge. And that the consciousness admitted by both of us should be the Self is refuted by immediate consciousness itself.
If it does not previously exist, then Release discloses itself as something to be effected, and therefore non- eternal. And that such non-knowledge is impossible because there is no definable substrate for it we have shown above.
Up. Now this theory of Nescience is altogether untenable. In the first place we ask, 'What is the substrate of this Nescience which gives rise to the great error of plurality of existence? You cannot reply 'the individual soul'; for the individual soul itself exists in so far only as it is fictitiously imagined through Nescience.
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