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Samantbhadra Bharati
[Chapter 4
Even though there is no difference, there is still one cause - because of its eternal nature, it does not cease to exist, then) there is a contradiction in the number two - if the action and cause are completely one, then this is the action and this is the cause, such a number two cannot be indicated; just as in the case of a thing being completely one, there is no action-cause relationship.
If the duality-number is considered to be a kind of convention or formal, then this convention (being contrary to the ultimate truth) is false, then the duality-number also becomes false - in such a situation, how can the knowledge of the principal be obtained? It cannot be done directly; because the principal is not the object of direct perception. It cannot be done by inference either; because there is no infallible linga. It cannot be done by scripture either; because the word is also considered to be false; and from a false linga, the proof of an infallible sadhya does not occur, and if it is considered to be proved, then the fallacy of atiprasanga arises.
(Similarly, if the unity of the man and the consciousness, which are the support and the supported, is accepted, then the absence of each other is established; if the consciousness enters the man, then there is the occasion of only the man, and if the man enters the consciousness, then there is the occasion of only the consciousness, and from this, in the case of the followers of Samkhya, the absence of one of the two, the man and the consciousness, is proved on the acceptance of complete unity. If one of the two is absent, then the other is also absent; because there is an inseparable relationship between the two. The man is the support and the consciousness-nature is its supported - without the support, there is no existence of the supported, and without the supported, there is no existence of the support. If the two are completely one, then the duality-number also does not arise, and if the convention is imagined in the duality-number, then the occasion of emptiness arises; because