sūkṣma – subtle
anupalabdhiḥ – non-perception
kāryatas – through its effects
upalabdhi – perception
Relying on causality, I Infer it from its effects.
- Having acknowledged the limitations of my own senses (verse 7), I acknowledge that not being able to perceive a thing does not necessarily mean it does not exist.
- And so I allow that not being able to perceive the Unmanifest (Prakrti) does not mean that it does not exist.
- I can perceive Intelligence (Mahat) and everything that the Unmanifest (Prakrti) causes.
- I can infer (verse 6) that therefore there must be something that causes Intelligence (Mahat).
- I identify the Unmanifest (Prakrti) as that which causes Intelligence (Mahat).
- I acknowledge that there are things that are too subtle for me to perceive (verse 7).
- And so I acknowledge that the Unmanifest (Prakrti) may also be too subtle for me to perceive.
- In my attempt to infer what the Unmanifest (Prakrti) is, I acknowledge that like a son is similar to and different from his father, so the effects of the Unmanifest are both similar to and different from it.
- There is a field of darkness through which I cannot perceive.
- There is a field of inference (also dark, but not AS dark) into which I can infer
- There is a field of light in which I can perceive.
- In the darkness is a shape I can hardly make out.
- In the inferred darkness there are shapes that have in them the shape that is in darkness.
- In the light are shapes that have in them the shapes that are inferred.
- In the light are shapes that have in them other shapes from the light … their relationship reveals inference.
- With inference in the field of light I can infer the things in the darker inferred field.
- From those things (and with inference from the light) I can infer subtle nature that is in the field of darkness.