ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका
Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā
- 1 nanu svalakṣaṇābhāsaṃ jñānam ekaṃ paraṃ punaḥ sābhilāpaṃ vikalpākhyaṃ … (Objection:) Surely cognition is of one kind, appearing as a bare particular;
- 2 nityasya kasya cid draṣṭus tasyātrānavabhāsataḥ ahaṃpratītir apy eṣā … And since some permanent single seer never appears here in cognition, this very notion…
- 3 athānubhavavidhvaṃse smṛtis tadanurodhinī kathaṃ bhaven na nityaḥ syād … (Objection:) Now, when the original experience has perished, how could a memory…
- 4 satyāpy ātmani dṛṅnāśāt taddvārā dṛṣṭavastuṣu smṛtiḥ kenātha yatraivā-nubhavas … (Objection:) But even granting the Self, since the cognition (through which things were…
- 5 yato hi pūrvānubhavasaṃskārāt smṛtisaṃbhavaḥ yady evam antargaḍunā ko … (Opponent's conclusion:) Since memory arises from the latent trace of the prior…
- 6 tato bhinneṣu dharmeṣu tatsvarūpāviśeṣatah saṃskārāt smṛitisiddhau syāt smartā … (Opponent:) Hence, among the distinct momentary factors, owing to the sameness of their…
- 7 jñānaṃ ca citsvarūpaṃ cet tad anityaṃ kim ātmavat … (Reply begins:) And if cognition has consciousness as its very nature, why should it be…
- 8 athārthasya yathā rūpaṃ dhatte buddhis tathātmanaḥ caitanyam ajaḍā … Now, just as the intellect takes on the form of an object, so too it takes on the…
- 9 kriyāpy arthasya kāyādes tattaddeśādijātatā nānyādṛṣṭer na sāpy ekā … Action too — of an object such as a body — is nothing but its coming-to-be in this or…
- 10 tatra tatra sthite tat tad bhavatīty eva dṛśyate … It is simply observed that, when this or that is present, this or that comes to be —…
- 11 dviṣṭhasyānekarūpatvāt siddhasyānyānapekṣaṇāt pāratantryādyayogāc ca tena kartāpi kalpitaḥ (Opponent concludes:) Because what abides in the two (cause and effect) has many forms,…