"अभिन्नोऽपि हि बुद्ध्यात्मा विपर्यासितदर्शनैः । ग्राह्यग्राहकसंवित्तिभेदवानिव लक्ष्यते" ॥
"abhinno'pi hi buddhyātmā viparyāsitadarśanaiḥ | grāhyagrāhakasaṃvittibhedavāniva lakṣyate" ||
"Although the intellect itself is undivided, by those whose vision is distorted it is seen as if it had the divisions of the grasped, the grasper and the cognition."
"बुद्धि-रूप आत्मा यद्यपि अभिन्न है, फिर भी उलटी दृष्टि वाले उसे ग्राह्य, ग्राहक और ज्ञान के भेदों वाली-सी देखते हैं।"
Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ
Shankara takes this Buddhist verse seriously: he agrees the split into knower and known is not ultimate, but he will go on to deny that consciousness is momentary.
शंकर इस बौद्ध श्लोक को गम्भीरता से लेते हैं: वे मानते हैं कि ज्ञाता और ज्ञेय का भेद अन्तिम सत्य नहीं, पर आगे वे यह अस्वीकार करेंगे कि चेतना क्षणिक है।
Shankaracharya quotes a verse of the Buddhist logician Dharmakirti (Pramanavarttika), stating the idealist view he is about to examine: consciousness is one, and its split into knower, known and knowing is an illusion.