Sarvadarshanasangraha 15.3

15.3

nanu puṣkarapalāśavan nirlepasya tasya tapyabhāvaḥ katham upapadyate yena parameśvaro 'nugrāhakatayā kakṣīkriyata iti cet — ucyate/ tāpakasya rajasaḥ sattvam eva tapyaṃ buddhyātmanā pariṇatam iti sattve paritapyamāne tadāropavaśena tadabhedāvagāhipuruṣo 'pi tapyata ity ucyate/ tad uktam ācāryaiḥ —

"But how can such an essence as soul, undefiled as the [glossy] leaf of a lotus, be said to be burned, that we should need to accept any Supreme Being as gracious to it?" To this we reply, that the quality Goodness develops itself as the understanding, and it is this which is, as it were, burned by the quality Activity; and the soul, by the influence of Darkness, blindly identifying itself with this suffering quality, is also said itself to suffer. Thus the teachers have declared—