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अङ्कुरो जायते बीजाद्बीजं तेनैव सूच्यते। ज्ञेयाज्ज्ञानेन जातेन तत्सत्ता किं न गम्यते॥
[Mādhyamika] The existence of the seed is verified by a consciousness which is not the same as the shoot. How is the existence of consciousness cognized so that it verifies the object of consciousness?
མྱུ་གུ་ས་བོན་ལས་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་། །
ས་བོན་དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་རྟོགས་བཞིན། ། ཤེས་བྱ་ལས་སྐྱེས་ཤེས་པ་ཡིས། །
དེ་ཡོད་པ་ནི་ཅིས་མི་རྟོགས། །“The plant arises from the seed,” you say,
“And through it is the seed deduced. It’s just the same with consciousness arising from its object.
How can it fail to show the thing’s existence?”
“A sprout arises from a seed,
And this points to the seed. So why should the existence of a knowable object not be verified
Through the consciousness that arises from it?” [114]
- Si la pousse qui naît de la graine
Révèle la réalité de la graine, Pourquoi la conscience née de l’objet
N’en révélerait pas l’existence [réelle] ?
Decís: “Puesto que la planta sale de la semilla,
de la planta se deduce la semilla. Igualmente de la consciencia producida por su objeto,
¿cómo no va a deducirse la existencia del objeto?”.[p.171]La Práctica del BodisatvaHervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.
The sprout is generated from the seed
And just as the seed is realized through it, Why should one not realize the existence of
The object of knowledge from the consciousness generated from it?
That a sprout arises from a seed
Can be understood from the seed, Likewise, why cannot the existence of the known
Be understood from the knower?
མྱུ་གུ་ས་བོན་ལས་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་། །
ས་བོན་དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་རྟོགས་བཞིན། ། ཤེས་བྱ་ལས་སྐྱེས་ཤེས་པ་ཡིས། །
དེ་ཡོད་པ་ནི་ཅིས་མི་རྟོགས། །
