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The Essence of the Tantra6.77

6.77

कालभेद एव संवेदनभेदकः न वेद्यभेदः शिखरस्थज्ञानवत् ज्ञानस्य यावान् अवस्थितिकालः स एव क्षणः प्राणोदये च एकस्मिन् एकम् एव ज्ञानम् अवश्यं चैतत् अन्यथा विकल्पज्ञानम् एकं न किञ्चित् स्यात् क्रमिकशब्दारूषितत्वात् मात्राया अपि क्रमिकत्वात्

Transliteration (IAST)

kālabheda eva saṃvedanabhedakaḥ na vedyabhedaḥ śikharasthajñānavat jñānasya yāvān avasthitikālaḥ sa eva kṣaṇaḥ prāṇodaye ca ekasmin ekam eva jñānam avaśyaṃ caitat anyathā vikalpajñānam ekaṃ na kiñcit syāt kramikaśabdārūṣitatvāt mātrāyā api kramikatvāt

— difference of time ; — the differentiator of cognitions ; — difference of the knowable object ; — like the cognition of one standing on a peak ; — the duration of (a cognition's) persistence ; — the moment ; — in a single arising of the breath ; — only a single cognition ; — conceptual cognition ; — because it is overlaid with a sequential word ; — of even a (single) mora ; — because it too is sequential

It is difference of time alone that differentiates cognitions, not difference of the knowable object, as with the cognition of one standing on a peak. Whatever is the duration of a cognition's persistence, that very (duration) is its moment. And in a single arising of the breath there is necessarily only a single cognition; otherwise a conceptual cognition would not be one thing at all, since it is overlaid with a sequential word, and even a single mora is itself sequential.