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## Chapter 3: The Nature of Qualification
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Samantbhadra-Bharati
[“Qualification does not arise, nor is it the qualified, nor the qualifier.”]
(And if it is said that the truth is manifested by self-awareness without qualification and the qualified, that is not correct; because even in self-awareness, the existence (being) of the qualified is perceived through the particularity of the qualifier. In the alternative consciousness that arises after self-awareness, the “awareness of oneself” is perceived as a qualifier-qualified relationship, not in the nature of self-awareness. If it is said that self-awareness is in the form of the unqualified and the qualifier, and that it is self-manifested, then this also proves the qualifier-qualified relationship in self-awareness; because by saying so, the unqualified and the qualifier itself becomes the qualifier.)
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Negation is of the existent, not of the non-existent. Negation is of the existent, in relation to other substance, space, and time.
The non-existent is not a state, it is the place of injunction and prohibition.
(If the qualifier-qualified relationship is considered to be completely non-existent, then its negation does not arise; because) negation is of the existent (in relation to other substance, space, and time), not of the non-existent. A completely non-existent entity is not even the subject of injunction and prohibition – an entity that is non-existent in relation to other substance, space, and time, and also non-existent in relation to its own substance, space, and time, is completely non-existent. What injunction can there be for it? What has no injunction, has no negation; because negation arises after injunction. And therefore, what is existent and can be spoken of in some way in relation to its own substance, etc., is rightly considered to be unspeakable (in relation to other substance, etc.) due to its negation. And what is existent and is in some way in the form of the qualified and the qualifier in relation to its own substance, etc., is rightly considered to be in the form of the unqualified and the qualifier (in relation to other substance, etc.).