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Verse 52
The Buddhists say that all, except consciousness, is unreal. Consciousness alone is the established truth. All the three worlds are the result of discrimination or thought-relations. No external object exists in reality. All that is, is consciousness. Liberation (mokşa) is origination of a cognition purified from the inundation of the forms of objects which have passed away upon the annihilation of all suffusions (vāsanā)l. And that does not fit since simply from the absence of the cause, the attainment of liberation (moksa) is unaccountable.2
1. ‘vāsanā', which in common language signifies imparting of a scent,
is much discussed in Buddhist writings; it denotes a factor in a
thought due to prior experience or activity, a bias. 2. See Thomas, FW. (1968), “The Flower-Spray of the Quodammodo
Doctrine - Śrī Mallisena Suri's Syāduāda-Manjarī”, p. 120.
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