Establishment of Brahman 3.285

3.285

na khalu jñānamātraṃ vidhīyate, jñānaviśeṣavastu /
na cāprasiddhe 'nirūpite tatra niyogaḥ /
na hyaprasiddhe viṣaye niyoktuṃ śakyate /
jñānasya ca viśeṣo 'rthadvāraḥ /
na cāprasiddho 'rthastadviśeṣanirūpaṇāya prabhuḥ /
na cātmarūpasya śabdādanyataḥ siddhiḥ /
śabdādapi cenna siddhiḥ, taddvārajñānaviśeṣāsiddhau viṣayānupapatterniyogānupapattiḥ /

Indeed, cognition merely as such is not enjoined, but a real thing that is a particular cognition. / Nor is there an injunction with respect to that when it is unestablished and undefined. / For it is impossible to enjoin with respect to an unestablished object. / And the particularity of cognition is through its object. / And an unestablished object is not capable of defining its particularity. / Nor is the nature of the Self established from any source other than verbal testimony. / And if it is not established from verbal testimony either, then upon the non-establishment of the particular cognition through it, because of the impossibility of the object, there is the impossibility of an injunction.