ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका
Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā
- 1 satyaṃ kiṃ tu smṛtijñānaṃ pūrvānubhavasaṃskṛteḥ jātam apy ātmaniṣṭhaṃ … (Reply:) Granted;
- 2 dṛksvābhāsaiva nānyena vedyā rūpadṛśeva dṛk rase saṃskārajatvaṃ tu … A cognition is self-luminous and cannot be known by another, just as one seeing of a form…
- 3 athātadviṣayatve 'pi smṛtes tadavasāyataḥ dṛṣṭālambanatā bhrāntyā tad etad … And if it be argued that, even though memory does not have that (original experience) as…
- 4 smṛtitaiva kathaṃ tāvad bhrānteś cārthasthitiḥ katham pūrvānubhavasaṃkārā-pekṣā ca … For, in the first place, how could it then even be memory at all?
- 5 bhrāntitve cāvasāyasya na jaḍād viṣayasthitiḥ tato 'jāḍye nijollekhaniṣṭhān … And if the ascertainment is erroneous, no object can be established from something…
- 6 evam anyonyabhinnānām aparasparavedinām jñānānām anusaṃdhānajanmā naśyej janasthitiḥ Thus, if cognitions are mutually distinct and do not cognize one another, then the…
- 7 na ced antaḥkṛtānantaviśvarūpo maheśvaraḥ syād ekaś cidvapur jñānasmṛtyapohanaśaktimān — and this it would be, were there not the one Great Lord, whose body is consciousness,…