12.303
Yājñavalkya said.
O dear, it is not possible for one devoid of qualities to be made endowed with qualities, O lord of men; and also, one who possesses qualities cannot become one with faults. Understand the truth of this from me. (12-303-1)
Great souls, sages who know reality, declare that by qualities, one is called qualified, and likewise, one is called unqualified or without qualities. (12-303-2)
But the unmanifest, whose own nature is qualities, indeed moves among the qualities; and that ignorant one, by his very nature, employs those same qualities. (12-303-3)
But the unmanifested does not know; the person who is a knower by nature always thinks, 'There is nothing higher than me.' (12-303-4)
Therefore, by this reasoning, this unmanifest would be unconscious; but because of its eternality and imperishability, in reality, it is otherwise than the perishable. (12-303-5)
That which, due to ignorance, repeatedly creates the manifestation of the guṇas, and which does not know the self—this is called the unmanifest here. (12-303-6)
It is said that, due to agency and the principles, one is called as possessing the nature of the principles; likewise, due to agency and the wombs, one is called as possessing the nature of the womb. (12-303-7)
But because of the agency of the natures, so is nature-characteredness; and because of the agency of the seeds, one is said to be seed-charactered in the same way. (12-303-8)
Because of the productive nature of the qualities and thus being endowed with the property of production; and because of the agency of dissolutions, likewise being characterized by the property of dissolution. (12-303-9)
Because of being the seed, the original source, and the state of dissolution, as well as being the overseer, being different, and due to self-conceit, it is only so. (12-303-10)
The pure ascetics, whose afflictions relating to the self have departed, think thus: 'This is impermanent, eternal, and unmanifest'—indeed, we have heard so. (12-303-11)
They say that the unmanifest is oneness, and the person is manifoldness likewise; those who are compassionate to all beings are established only in knowledge. (12-303-12)
There is another person, unmanifest, but impermanent, called permanent; just as the muñja grass is separated from the reed, so indeed is this born. (12-303-13)
One should know another as the mosquito, and another as the udumbara tree likewise. Yet, by the conjunctions with the udumbara, the mosquito there is not affected. (12-303-14)
In the same way, the fish is considered different, and the water is considered different. The fish is not tainted at all by contact with water. (12-303-15)
Truly, fire is different and the fire-pan is also different; always know this, O! The fire is not tainted by contact with the fire-pan (12-303-16)
Here, the lotus is indeed considered different, and likewise, the water is considered different; there, the lotus is not tainted by the touch of water. (12-303-17)
Ordinary people do not always see him, whether in constant association or separation with these; only as it is, so they see him. (12-303-18)
But those who see otherwise and do not perceive properly, they clearly enter the terrible hell again and again. (12-303-19)
This excellent Sāṅkhya philosophy has been fully enumerated to you. Thus, indeed, by such enumeration, the Sāṅkhyas have attained isolation. (12-303-20)
But as for those others who are skilled in reality, this is the illustration for them; therefore, I shall now further declare the exposition of the yogas also. (12-303-21)
