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## The Study of Samvasarana
How can the state of Maya persist when both the study of Samvasarana and the object to which Maya is attributed are absent? Just as a dream occurs only when the state of wakefulness exists, so too, accepting the dream necessitates accepting the state of wakefulness. Accepting or proving the state of wakefulness leads to the loss of all-emptiness - all-emptiness cannot persist. A dream is not non-existent because the objects experienced and seen in a dream have existence in the world. Therefore, it is said that experienced, seen, thought, and heard nature-modifications, divine influence, merit, and demerit are the causes of a dream. However, non-existence is not the cause of a dream. The arrangement of magic is also done only when another object is true - it is merely an artificial form of truth. But when there is no true object in the world, who will create magic for whom? The illusion of two moons is also possible only when the night is true and when the one moon that creates the illusion is true. This cannot happen in a state of all-emptiness. There is no absence of the extremely subtle form of any object. The absence of the extremely subtle form is expressed in terms like "hare's horn," "tortoise hair," and "lotus in the sky," which are famous as examples of the absence of the meaning of the combined words, not the absence of the meaning of each word in the compound. Because a hare exists in this world and horns also exist, the negation here is of the horn existing on the hare's head through the relation of inherence. Thus, only the relation is negated here. There is no absence of the object itself. It should be understood in the same way elsewhere. Even when actions like "exists" etc. are present, those who are devoid of wisdom and follow other doctrines resort to and believe in the doctrine of inaction.
Those whose wisdom is unhindered, not covered by karma like knowledge-obscuring karma, know the true nature of an object as it is. Just as the clairvoyant, the mind-penetrator, and the omniscient see the objects existing in the three worlds like a myrobalan fruit held in the palm of the hand, so too, the fully scriptural knower knows the meaning and objects related to the past and future with the help of the scriptures. The eight-fold cause-knower, other men, also understand, recognize, and know the living beings and other objects through the medium of causes.
"Many people in the world know the future by studying the eight-fold scriptures, which include astrology, dream interpretation, omens, bodily signs, causes, meteors, and celestial fires."
**Commentary:**
"Samvatsara" refers to astrology, "dream" refers to the book on dream interpretation, "omens" refer to things like the Srivatsa mark, "causes" refer to auspicious words, good omens, etc., "bodily signs" refer to those found on the body, like moles and birthmarks, "meteors" refer to celestial events like meteors, celestial fires, eclipses, earthquakes, and tremors, and "eight-fold" refers to the study of all these causes. For example, the earth, meteors, dreams, the sky, and limbs are all causes.