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47-53] " CONSISTING OF EARTH " 183 50. If any action is admitted (in the Purusha) it must be perishable. If (it is argued that) the action in the Purusha is of the nature of Knowledge¹ only we meet with the difficulty spoken of before. If uncaused action in the Prakriti be admitted it becomes unreasonable that there can be liberation. न प्रकाश्यं यथोष्णत्वं ज्ञानेनैवं सुखादयः । एकनीडत्वतोऽग्राह्याः स्युः कणादादिवर्त्मनाम् ॥ ५१ ॥ 51. Pleasure² etc. cannot, as held by the followers of Kanada, be the objects of knowledge ; for they are the properties of the same substance,³ just as heat, (a property of fire) cannot be revealed by light.⁴ युगपत्समवेतत्वं सुखविज्ञानयोरपि । मनोयोगैकहेतुत्वादग्राह्यत्वं सुखस्य च ॥ ५२ ॥ 52. Pleasure and knowledge cannot come together as each of them is (separately) caused by the contact of the mind (with the self). Therefore pleasure cannot be the object (of knowledge). तथान्येषां च भिन्नत्वाद्युगपज्जन्म नेष्यते । गुणानां समवेतत्वं ज्ञानं चेन्न विशेषणात् ॥ ५३ ॥ ¹ If knowledge is Pure Consciousness the Purusha cannot be the lord of the Prakriti, (see footnote 4, verse 48 above,) but if it be phenomenal, Purusha becomes perishable. ² Refutation of Kanâda's Vaiseshika doctrine : verses 51—66. ³ The individual soul. According to this philosophy souls have qualities, such as knowledge, pain, pleasure, etc. ⁴ Another property of fire.