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

NINTH SUTRA. 91
IX.
NINTH SUTRA.
ON THE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL.
Sutra.—The soul, on perceiving in itself with
the eye of Gnanam, the Lord who cannot be perceiv-
ed by the human intellect or senses, and on giving up
the world (Pasa) by knowing it to be false as a
mirage, will find its rest in the Lord. Let the soul
contemplate Sri Panchaṭchara according to Law.
Commentary.
This treats of the manner of purifying the soul
and consists of three arguments.
First Argument.
Churnika.—The soul can perceive Hara only with His
Gnanam.
Varthikam.—That the soul should see the Lord by its
eye of Gnanam, is established by the fact that the Lord
cannot be perceived by the human senses and faculties and
is otherwise perceivable.
Illustrations.—(a) A person after examining the nerves,
bones, pus, phlegm of which he is composed of and not find-
ing, what he is, arrives at the knowledge that he must
understand with some other intelligence ; and unless he then
understands his God and his own self with the aid of Hara,
how else is he to understand his own self ?