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SIKAND-GÛMÂNÎK VIGÂR.
Unless that individuality of theirs, which is unlimited, be made limited, how is it possible for a place to exist for all these things that are and were and will be made ? 100. If a nature that is always unlimited can become limited, that certainly implies that it could even become nothing ; (101) and that which they say about the unchangeableness of a nature is strange!
102. This, too, you should understand, that the unlimited becomes that which has disturbed it, which was not appointed by it at first; (103) nothing different from it can exist separate from it. 104. Apart from the boundary of unlimitedness it is not understood, (105) or, stupidly, one does not know that thing, that is, of what it is he always speaks and contends and bandies words about, and thereby deludes those with a trifle of the trifles of knowledge into some way and whither. 106. If he uncritically2 says even this of it, that its individuality is unlimited, and its knowledge also, being unlimited, knows through unlimited knowledge that it is unlimited, (107) that is a strange thing which is twofold stranges. 108. One is this, that of knowledge, except about things acquired by knowledge and compassed within knowledge, (109) nothing whatever is understood until complete, except that which is wholly compassed within knowledge and acquired, (10) which knowledge of anything arises through entire understanding of the thing. II. And entire
See Chap. XV, 39 n.
The first part of this word is a blank in JE, as if copied from an original that was illegible here. I has a hvaraidiha.
3 See Chap. XV, 39 n.
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