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be something other than the feelings themselves, to which they (feelings) can be agreeable or otherwise. Feelings cannot be agreeable or disagreeable to the Great Principle and other products; as that would involve the anomaly of things operating upon themselves; as the Great Principle and the rest are all themselves integrally composed of pleasure, pain and delusion.* Thus, then, something else, which does not consist of pleasure, etc., must be the one to whom things are agreeable or disagreeable; and this something else must be the Spirit.
A different interpretation of the above reason
(124) Others, however, interpret the above reasoning of the Karika thus: The term 'Bhogya stands for visible; and the visibility of the Great Principle and the rest not being possible without an observer, there must be one outside of, and beyond them; and this is the Spirit. What the word 'bhoktṛbhāvāt ' of the text means is 'because the observer is to be inferred from the visible'. The visibility of the Great Principle and the rest is to be inferred from the fact of their consisting,-like the Earth and other substances,-of pleasure, pain and delusion.
(125) Lastly, the Spirit must be there-"because there is tendency towards Isolation."-The 'Iso. Because of the lation' which is found in all scriptures and tendency of writers and sages is recognised by great sages and others towards beatitude possessed of divine insight as the absolute and final cessation of the three kinds of pain-can never belong to the Great Principle and other products; because, by their very nature, the pain as one of their integral components, from which, therefore, they can never be absolved,
* That is to say-the Great Principle, as made up of pleasure, pain and dulness, cannot be properly said to feel pleasure etc., for that would imply the feeling of pleasure by pleasure;--or worse still-by pain; and vice versa, which is absurd.
