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शुद्धोपयोग अधिकार
12 - THE PURE-COGNITION
besides knowledge. Moreover, there is the doctrine-of-non-absolutism (anekāntavāda), the indispensability of looking at the reality from different points of view. If knowledge is the soul absolutely, the quality of knowledge becomes the substance of soul. That in which quality exists is the substance, and if the quality becomes the substance, in the absence of quality, the substance of soul cannot exist. If the soul is knowledge absolutely, the soul will possess the quality of knowledge alone; other qualities like bliss and energy cannot exist in it. Without the quality, the substance cannot exist; without the substance of soul, knowledge too cannot exist.
Therefore, from one point of view, knowledge definitely is the soul, as knowledge does not exist anywhere else. The soul is knowledge only in respect of its quality of knowledge, it is bliss in respect of its quality of bliss, it is energy in respect of its quality of energy, and so on.1 The same argument holds for perception (darśana), another quality of the soul (ātmā). It follows that perception (darśana) is the soul (ātmā). Since the soul (ātmā) illumines the self as well as the others, knowledge (jñāna) and perception (darśana), too, illumine the self as well as the others.
1 - Ācārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra - Essence of the Doctrine, p. 35.
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