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The Vision of Śiva2.35

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सत्यैव यदि विद्यानामभावस्तर्हि शून्यता । शून्यया बाध्यते चित्रं पश्यन्ती दर्शनात्मिका ॥३५॥
satyaiva yadi vidyānāmabhāvastarhi śūnyatā | śūnyayā bādhyate citraṃ paśyantī darśanātmikā
— if (it be) truly real ; — if ; — knowledge ; — indeed ; — non-being ; — then ; — voidness ; — by the void ; — is contradicted ; — strange! ; — Paśyantī ; — whose very nature is seeing

If knowledge is truly real, yet (you make it amount to) a sheer absence, then it is voidness; and — how strange! — Paśyantī, whose very nature is seeing, would be contradicted by that void.