siddhantabindu /145
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farafas
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193. An objection can be raised thus: If the whole
world is unreal, knowledge of the Self cannot arise by
the denial of the world. The horn of a hare (an unreal
entity) is never denied. The rule is that something
known through evidence on some occasion is denied
on some other occasion. Therefore, denial is itself
unreasonable and the world is not unreal. He says
'No'.
Not (even) the one is there, how can there be a
second other than it?
Not absoluteness nor even non-absoluteness.
Not the void nor the non-void because of Its non-
duality.
How can I speak of That which is established by all
the Upanishads?
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The one, which can be associated with the numeri-
cal property of oneness. 'Second' that which can be
properly associated with the numerical value of two,
which is relative to the idea of one. So when the one
is not there how can there be a second? 'Second' is
indicative of the third and the rest.
१९४. ननु 'एकमेवाद्वितीयम्' इति श्रुत्या एकत्वं प्रतिपाद्यते ।
"Brahman is
194. Objection: Does not the Șruti say
one only without a second" (Ch. u. vi. 2, i), and so
establish oneness ?
१९५. नेत्याह, न वा केवलत्वमिति । केवलत्वमेकत्वम् । तस्याविद्य-
कत्वात् ।
195. Answer: 'No.' He says, 'not absoluteness.'
Absoluteness is oneness; (it is denied) because it is
essentially ignorance.
१९६· यद्यात्मन एकत्वं श्रुत्या न प्रतिपाद्यते तार्हि प्रत्यक्षादिप्रमाणवशादने
कत्वमेव स्यादिति चेत् ।
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farafas
107
193. An objection can be raised thus: If the whole
world is unreal, knowledge of the Self cannot arise by
the denial of the world. The horn of a hare (an unreal
entity) is never denied. The rule is that something
known through evidence on some occasion is denied
on some other occasion. Therefore, denial is itself
unreasonable and the world is not unreal. He says
'No'.
Not (even) the one is there, how can there be a
second other than it?
Not absoluteness nor even non-absoluteness.
Not the void nor the non-void because of Its non-
duality.
How can I speak of That which is established by all
the Upanishads?
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The one, which can be associated with the numeri-
cal property of oneness. 'Second' that which can be
properly associated with the numerical value of two,
which is relative to the idea of one. So when the one
is not there how can there be a second? 'Second' is
indicative of the third and the rest.
१९४. ननु 'एकमेवाद्वितीयम्' इति श्रुत्या एकत्वं प्रतिपाद्यते ।
"Brahman is
194. Objection: Does not the Șruti say
one only without a second" (Ch. u. vi. 2, i), and so
establish oneness ?
१९५. नेत्याह, न वा केवलत्वमिति । केवलत्वमेकत्वम् । तस्याविद्य-
कत्वात् ।
195. Answer: 'No.' He says, 'not absoluteness.'
Absoluteness is oneness; (it is denied) because it is
essentially ignorance.
१९६· यद्यात्मन एकत्वं श्रुत्या न प्रतिपाद्यते तार्हि प्रत्यक्षादिप्रमाणवशादने
कत्वमेव स्यादिति चेत् ।