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Chapter 1 - Sutra 16
31 Understand the unconditioned through conceptual sign as indefinite and through purpose as the unqualified object; and understand the conditioned through conceptual sign. Just as, by the touch of cold, soft, and delicate, previously experienced, one comprehends the present water lilies through the conceptual forms known by the four means of knowledge, those who perceive them by means of a conceptual sign—unconditioned and conditioned—are called (conceptually) unqualified in the latter case, just as they are (conceptually) qualified in the former.
'In the case of the unqualified, the meaning is certain, and in the case of the conditioned, the meaning is uncertain. For example, "This is the touch of sandalwood, not of a flower."
1. The meanings given to the terms 'unqualified' and 'conditioned' are also mentioned in the commentary on the Nandisutra, but beyond that, another meaning has been presented in that commentary by Shri Malayagiri: The engagement that is mixed with external dharma is certainly fixed, and the engagement that is unmixed with external dharma is certainly indeterminate. See p. 183, published by Agodaya Committee.
"Unconditioned" means 50. Accordingly, it is stated therein that the engagement of pudgala that does not manifest completely is "unmanifest and the engagement of pudgala that manifests completely is certainly conditioned." See Rajvastik No. 15 on this sutra.
2. "Convey" means 50. Accordingly, it is expressed that when a word emerges from the mouth of the speaker, if it is entirely articulated, one can understand it only from the purport, that "You are uttering a specific word." The meaning derived merely from the sound of a musical instrument before conveying the sound, that is the "conveyed meaning." In contrast, the "intended meaning" is deduced in the opposite manner. See Rajvastik No. 15 on this same sutra.