Verses on the Recognition of the Lord· 2.4 / 11

Verses on the Recognition of the Lord2.4

2.4
सत्याप्य् आत्मनि दृङ्नाशात् तद्द्वारा दृष्टवस्तुषु स्मृतिः केनाथ यत्रैवानुभवस् तत्पदैव सा ॥४॥
satyāpy ātmani dṛṅnāśāt taddvārā dṛṣṭavastuṣu smṛtiḥ kenātha yatraivā-nubhavas tatpadaiva sā
— (the Self) being (granted), even granting ; — even ; — the Self ; — because of the perishing of the cognition (seeing) ; — by means of it (the cognition) ; — regarding the things (previously) seen ; — memory ; — by what means? how? ; — moreover, then ; — precisely where (in which subject) ; — the experience (occurred) ; — belonging to that very locus ; — it (the memory)

(Objection:) But even granting the Self, since the cognition (through which things were seen) has perished, by what means could memory arise about the things once seen through it? Moreover, that memory belongs precisely to the same locus in which the experience took place.