शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

56 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
the eye though seeing cannot see, and the ear though
hearing, cannot hear.
Second Argument.
Churnika.—The souls understand with the aid of Hara.
Varthikam.—As the soul cannot perceive itself, in the
same way, the five senses cannot feel except with the aid
of the soul, it is established that the soul also perceives
with the aid of God.
Illustrations (a). Thou who hast even forgotten the
text of the Veda which says that the world (animate and in-
animate) becomes developed in the presence of Siva,
understand that the soul knows (the world) only according
to its Karma with the light of Siva. As all Asat is sunya,
He cannot experience Asat.
(b). Just as the stars which lose their individual light
in the light of the sun and yet do not become the sun itself,
so the soul receiving impressions from all the five senses
with the aid of God who is the only Truth, becomes indis-
tinguishable and inseparable from Him (without becoming
one or different from Him.)
(c). The Arul of Isa exists eternally with Him. It is
His Sakti. Without Him, Sakti does not exist; and with-
out Sakti, He cannot be. Hara (and His Sakti) appear as
one to the gnanis, as the sun and its light appear as one to
the eye.