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

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Human Intelligence requires to be taught, improved and deve-
loped; it is imperfect and needs the support of a Perfect
Intelligence.
7. This argument sums up all the previous arguments, and
points out one distinction between the bodily senses, Sukshuma
and Karana Sariras which are all products of Maya, and the Soul.
The distinction is that whereas these products of matter are ever
changeable and changing and hence called Asat or false, the soul
is unchangeable and hence called Sat. This sat however becomes
Asat when in union with Asat or Maya and Sat when in union
with the True Sat or God and hence it is called Satasat. The
definition of Asat is given in the first Varthika of the sixth Sutra.
It does not mean non-existent, but one perceivable in one aspect
or objective attitude of the soul and not perceivable in the subjec-
tive attitude of the soul.
This finishes the chapter on proof. I have already pointed
out that Maya (Cosmic Matter) and Anava (Imperfection in
nature) are taken as facts and not capable of further explanation
or resolution into any other cause, and that matter undergoes
evolution, and that there is some method in this and this method
is determined by Karma (Law of Causation.) And matter not
being capable of Evolution itself and the individual Ego not being
able to determine the Evolution, we require a Superior Force, a
Grand Energy and this is the Unknowable. Its relation with
mind and matter is Adwaitha and its Omnipresence is brought
about by its Maha Chaitanyam. The reason for separately postu-
lating a soul is then shown and this soul could not be confounded
with Buvana and Bhoga, and is proved to be other than the
body, the five senses, and Sukshuma Sarira and Karana Sarira;
That is, it is different from Maya as well as from God. One
group of Phenomena or faculties have been omitted from the
consideration of these questions and that is, the four internal
senses, Manas, Buddhi, Chittam and Ahankaram and these four