Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.67

8.67

Objection: If the nature of the self as the Supreme Lord is natural, there is no need for seeking recognition. For a seed, even if unrecognised, does not fail to produce a sprout when the totality of auxiliary causes is present. Therefore, why this insistence on the recognition of the self? If this is asked, it is answered: listen now to this secret. Causal efficacy is indeed twofold: external, such as a sprout and the like, and that whose essence is the wonder of resting in the cogniser, having the nature of delight and so forth. Among these, the first does not require recognition. The second, however, certainly requires it. Here too, causal efficacy consists in the manifestation of the power of unity between the individual self and the Supreme Self, characterized by higher and lower supernatural accomplishments, whose essence is the wonder of 'I am the Lord'; thus recognition of one's own nature must be sought.