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It is only in case consciousness (equivalent to knowledge) constitutes. the essential nature of a soul that everyday knowledge on the part of , this soul becomes a possibility, knowledge which as pertaining to the things of the world is proved to be a fact on the testimony of the self. experience of each and every Soul.
आनेरुष्णत्वकल्पं तज्ज्ञानमस्य व्यवस्थितम् । प्रतिबन्धकसामर्थ्यान्न स्वकार्ये प्रवर्तते ॥४३१॥ agner uşņaivakalpan tajjñānam asya vyanasthllam /
pratibandhakasamarthyan na svakrae pravartate 1/431|| Thus the knowledge of a soul proves comparable to the hotness of fire, and why it (i.e. the knowledge of a soul) does not sometimes periorm its function is due to the presence of the obstructing factors.
ज्ञो ज्ञेये कथमज्ञः स्यादसति प्रतिवन्धके। दाह्येऽग्निर्दाहको न स्यात् कथमप्रतिबन्धकः ॥४३२॥ jio jñeye katham ajñaḥ syūd asati pratibandhake |
dāhye’gnir dāhako na syal katham apratibandhakaḥ ||432|| How can that which is essentially (i. e. necessarily) a knower be ignorant in relation to anything whatsoever at a time when no obstructing factors are operating? How can the 11nobstructed fire fail to burn what is capable of being burnt?
न देशविप्रकर्षोऽस्य युज्यते प्रतिवन्धकः ।। तथानुभवसिद्धत्वादग्नेरिव सुनीतितः ॥४३३॥ na deśaviprakarșo'sya yujyate pratibandhakaḥ |
tathanubhavasiddhatvād agner iva sunītitaḥ 1/4331/ That the spatial distance of an object is incapable of obstructing our knowledge of this object is our comnion experience and is therefore logically a quite tenable position this in contrast to the case of fire which is actually incapable of burning a distant tbing.
अंशतस्त्वेष दृष्टान्तो धर्ममात्रत्वदर्शकः । अदाह्यादहनाद्येवमत एव न बाधकम् ॥४३४॥ ansatas tueş dīšļānto dharmamātratvadarśakaḥ /
adahyādahanūdy evam ata eva na badhakam 1/434|| The illustration of fire applies to the case of the knowledge of a soul. only partially, that is, only insofar as it demonstrates that knowledge constitutes the essential nature of a soul just as hotness does. of fire. Hence the fact that there are things which are incapable of
