Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari
by K. A. Subramania Iyer | 1965 | 391,768 words
The English translation of the Vakyapadiya by Bhartrihari including commentary extracts and notes. The Vakyapadiya is an ancient Sanskrit text dealing with the philosophy of language. Bhartrhari authored this book in three parts and propounds his theory of Sphotavada (sphota-vada) which understands language as consisting of bursts of sounds conveyi...
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Verse 3.14.324
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.324:
तेनास्य चितिरूपं च चितिकालश्च भिद्यते ।
तस्य स्वरूपभेदस्तु न कश्चिदपि विद्यते ॥ ३२४ ॥tenāsya citirūpaṃ ca citikālaśca bhidyate |
tasya svarūpabhedastu na kaścidapi vidyate || 324 ||324. That is how the form and the time of the consciousness of the experiencer is diversified. It has no diversity of form of its own.
Commentary
[The consciousness of the Experiencer is diversified by the objects mirrored in the Intellect. It appears as distinct with each object experienced. In other words, knowledge differs with the object known. Consciousness appears to have spatial and temporal distinctions, on the basis of such distinctions belonging to the objects. Really speaking, the Experiencer who is pure Consciousness has no inner diversity nor any based on time and space. Consciousness is not different from the Experiencer because the latter is pure consciousness. Those who do not know the distinction between consciousness and the objects mix the two up in their transactions.]