Shringaraprakasha 5.p2.23

5.p2.23

Therefore, the statement “because of the untenability of occurrence” is no defect. As for what was refuted through the dilemma of either omnipresence among all things or omnipresence in the individuals, that too is insignificant, since it is accepted according to experience. First, it is accepted that the universal is present in all things everywhere. / Its grasping is not everywhere because of the [local] proximity of the manifesting individual; / an individual attains the state of being a manifester of the universal; this is indeed observed, not otherwise. / Where and when there is a sight of it, then and there alone is the cognition of it; / the universal exists everywhere, but it is not seen everywhere. / Where the individual that manifests it is, right there it is seen. / What proof is there for its existence elsewhere than in the individual? That is stated: / Even here, when a cow is being brought, the cow-ness is observed; / and the arrival of the single [universal] along with the cow-individual is impossible, / as is that of the self with the body; therefore, its existence even here must be admitted. / But manifestation lasts as long as the perception of the individual lasts. / Therefore, once manifested, it is not cognized at another time; / and manifestation occurs in the place where the individual is seen. / Therefore, manifested in this [place], it is not seen in another place. / Even if it is present only in its individuals, when another cow is born / adhering to its own kind, the cognition of “cow” will occur from grasping it. / For the individual is born indeed conjoined with the universal; / the time of its connection with the universal and its birth is indeed one and the same. / There is neither prior existence of the universal here, nor transference from elsewhere; / but that individual is produced just like that from its own cause. / But as to the one who asks, “How is this so?”, / ah, let him also be asked this other question: / The bull is tawny, the cow is black, and she grazes on green grass; / how is the calf produced by the two of them white? / Just as that individual is perceived endowed with color and the like, / exactly so is it endowed with a universal; what is this continuous distress of yours? / And this question does not disappear even in the case of exclusion from non-cows. / Therefore, that newly born particular is excluded from non-cows; / hence, having understood the nature of things, one may raise an inquiry.