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Fire is never devoid of heat, that is the heat is not different from the fire. Therefore, when fire is spoken of, heat is implicitly spoken of. Similarly the assertion of the soul is tantamount to the assertion of cognition : the assertion of cognition is tantamount to the assertion of the soul. In this way the topic is discussed through the method of vice-versa’.!In the Bhagavatī (6.174) too, the non-difference between the soul and consciouness has been propounded in the following way:
'O Lord! is the self soul? Is the consciousness soul?'
‘O Gautama! the self is necessarily soul, consciousness is also necessarily soul.
Here it has been propounded that the self is also soul, the consciousness is also soul. The instrument by which the self cognizes, that cognition (instrument) is also the self20 (“self' and 'soul have been used in the same sense). 5.105 tam paducca padisamkhāe. Various transformations of knowledge designate the soul differently. Bhagyam Sutra 105 If the self and knowledge are considered to be non-different, then on the multiplicity of the cognition, each self will be a multiple entity. There are infinite number of modes of the sensuous knowledge and the like, 21 and as such, a single self will be virtually an infinitely multiple entity. On this problem, the Sūtra says -- the self assumes various cognitions, and is known or signified by those particular cognitions. For instance, when the self knows the jar, it is (called) 'jar-knowledge'. Similarly, when the self hears the audible it is 'auditory sense-organ', and so on; it is the ‘tactile sense-organ' when it knows the touch. There is no cloth-consciousness at the time of jar-consciousness and vice-versa. Here the tripple aspects of existence are to be applied — the soul is possessed of origination, cessation and continuity. The existence of the self is eternal; the modes of knowledge arise and vanish. Depending on those tripple aspects, the unitary soul is designated as a multiple entity.22 5.106 esa āyāvādī samiyāe-pariyāe viyāhite. A believer of the soul is called a person who has perfectly comprehended the Truth.
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