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## Verse 47: An Example of Distinction and Non-Distinction with Certainty
Now, an example of distinction and non-distinction with certainty is explained:
Knowledge (**naan**) makes the knower (**naanin**) and wealth (**dhan**) makes the wealthy (**dhanin**). What does it do? It makes the wealthy (**dhanin**) and the knower (**naanin**) in two ways, through two kinds of reasoning, through two kinds of certainties in conduct. Just as, they say, "They speak, thus": What do they say? Separateness and oneness. Who says it? The knowers of truth.
Just as, wealth, having a separate existence, is distinct from the person having a separate existence, and has a different name, a different location, a different number, a different subject matter, and a different basis, so the wealthy is designated as such due to the separateness of the doer. Similarly, knowledge, having a non-separate existence, is non-distinct from the person having a non-separate existence, and has a non-distinct name, a non-distinct location, a non-distinct number, a non-distinct subject matter, and a non-distinct basis, so the knower is designated as such due to the non-separateness of the doer.
The explanation of the example has been given. Similarly, in the case of giving, where there is a designation based on the distinction of the desired object, there, with certainty, distinction should be known, as explained in the previous verses, like Devadatta's cow, etc. Where, however, there is a designation based on non-distinction, there, with certainty, non-distinction should be known, like the branches of a tree, the infinite knowledge of the soul, etc.
In this sutra, whatever is non-distinct in name, non-distinct in location, non-distinct in number, and non-distinct in subject matter, that soul makes the knower. Just as, due to ignorance, etc., the soul wanders in the states of human, hell, etc., so, whatever is the seed of the tree of liberation, whose power of contemplation overcomes all the fields of objects, time, and existence, that very thing bears the fruit of pure knowledge. This non-changing, self-aware knowledge should be contemplated by the knowers.