Establishment of Brahman 3.80

3.80

Now, if it is held:
The object is cognised by a means of valid cognition only as related to itself;
therefore, the cognition “it exists” does not occur at a later time, even though it has the connection with the means of valid cognition as its object, because the object is apprehended only as related to itself—
even so, there would only be [the cognition] “it exists” everywhere;
there would not be the threefold division, because whenever anything is cognised, the connection with the means of valid cognition is present [in the present time].
And in this way, there would be no dependence on another means of valid cognition in a statement devoted to the meaning of [the verb] “is”, because the meaning of “is” would be nothing but the connection with that [very] means of valid cognition.