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DHARMAPALA'S COMMENTARY
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object follows only in comformity with our mental imagination; and it is not real; for, if that which is imagined is separated from consciousness; there is nothing left in the external.
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"The forms of the experienced objects do not originally exist apart from consciousness." Hence it is called the knowable in its essence: existing internally". The word "internally" indicates. that the knowable does not exist beyond consciousness.. The knowable, [externally] non-existent by its nature is regarded as existent internally.
(C It also arises from that."
A part of consciousness may arise, sometime from: itself, 'because the seventy-fifth element (i.e. consciousness) has a special character. Since no consciousness arises in separation from its object (jñeya), that part [of consciousness] (i.e. the knowable aspect) is produced. by consciousness itself, and we need not admit a fifth cause for it.
"Because (consciousness) is endowed with two parts (i.e. image and cause)."
It is clear that it is the actual object and to be shown as a proof [for our proposition] because of its being decisive argument 30 (i.e. its double nature). This object of double characteristic alone is considered to be probans (sadhana). What is the external thing other than [this object], that is not to be regarded as condition-cause for consciousness; [for example] things
30 Omit the word "a" in the Sanskrit text, p. 38, 1. 11.
