Establishment of Brahman 2.22
Brahmasiddhi 2.22
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- Sanskrit
2.22
nanu prakṛtyaiva bhinnā bhāvāḥ, tāṃstadvidhān vidadhadeva darśanaṃ parasparato vyāvartayati, na hi vyāvṛttiranyā vyāvṛttimataḥ /
tatra vyāvṛttimadvidhau sāpi vidhīyata eva, yatprakṛtiḥ khalu yaḥ padārthaḥ sa tayaiva prakṛtyā vidheyaḥ, anyathā na tasya vidhiḥ syāt, vyāvṛttasvabhāvāśca bhāvā yathāyathaṃ darśaneṣu nirbhāsante, tasmāttathaiva vidhīyanta iti /
atrāpyasaṃspṛṣṭanirbhāsanādasaṃspṛṣṭasvabhāvatve dṛśyayoraviśeṣeṇa vyavacchedastadavasthaḥ /
api ca
Now [an opponent might say]: 'Entities are different by their very nature; perception, in positing them as having that nature, differentiates them from one another; for differentiation is not distinct from that which possesses differentiation.
There, in positing what possesses differentiation, that [differentiation] itself is certainly posited. Indeed, whatever entity is of a certain nature must be posited by that very nature; otherwise there would be no positing of it. And entities shine forth respectively in perceptions as having a differentiated nature; therefore they are posited in just that way.'
Here too, since having an untouched nature follows from their shining forth as untouched, the exclusion without distinction of the two perceptibles remains in that very same state.
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