Verse 2.661-662

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

अज्ञानादि त्रयं तावत्प्रत्ययेऽपि न विद्यते ।
तस्य ह्यव्यवधानेन प्रत्यक्षान्नान्यमानता ॥ ६६१ ॥
ज्ञातुरव्यवधानेन संशयो निश्चयोऽपि वा ।
प्रत्ययः प्रथते यस्मान्न मानान्तरकाङ्क्ष्यतः ॥ ६६२ ॥

ajñānādi trayaṃ tāvatpratyaye'pi na vidyate |
tasya hyavyavadhānena pratyakṣānnānyamānatā || 661 ||
jñāturavyavadhānena saṃśayo niścayo'pi vā |
pratyayaḥ prathate yasmānna mānāntarakāṅkṣyataḥ || 662 ||

English translation of verse 2.661-662:

The three, viz., ignorance, error, and doubt, are not possible even with regard to the (mental) cognition, for, being directly perceived without any interruption, it does not require another pramāṇa. Since a cognition, whether it is dubitative or certain, manifests itself to the knower without any interruption, it does not require another pramāṇa.

Notes:

These two verses explain how ignorance, error and doubt are not possible with regard to a cognition obtained through a mental made. As a cognition takes place, the knower knows it directly. He cannot be either ignorant or mistaken about it. Nor can he entertain any doubt about it. The cognition which he has obtained is the basis of all that he does (vyavahāra.) So it does not require “another knowledge” for its manifestation.