सूक्ष्म इति सूक्ष्मविदः स्थूल इति च तद्विदः ।
मूर्त इति मूर्तविदो’मूर्त इति च तद्विदः ॥ २३ ॥sūkṣma iti sūkṣmavidaḥ sthūla iti ca tadvidaḥ |
mūrta iti mūrtavido’mūrta iti ca tadvidaḥ || 23 ||23. The Knowers1 of the subtle designate It as the subtle,2 the Knowers3 of the gross call It the gross,4 Those5 that are familiar with a Personality (having form) call It a person,6 and those7 that do not believe in anything having a form call It a void.8
Anandagiri Tika (glossary)
1 Knowers—i.e., those who believe (or take) the Ātman to be subtle like an atom.
2 Subtle—This theory is irrational: for, we feel consciousness simultaneously all over the body.
3 Knowers—A sect of materialists who believe the gross body to be real.
4 Gross—The gross body cannot be the Ultimate Reality as a dead or sleeping man, in spite of the body being in existence, is unconscious. Any single limb of the body is insentient. Therefore even their aggregate cannot constitute the conscious Reality.
5 Those, etc.—i.e., the Āgamikas who believe a person, e.g., Śiva with a trident or Viṣṇu with a disc, to be the Ultimate Reality. These are also imaginary.
6 Person—This is also an illusion.
7 Those, etc.—i.e., The Buddhistic ritualists.
8 Void—The idea that the Ultimate Reality is an absolute void is also an illusion, as a void also should have a knower, and so cannot be the substratum of the positive fact of the empirical universe.