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"""""""DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 99adhydsa) of the object denoted by theThouandits qualities to the pure spiritual object indicated bythe andI," conversely, the transfer of the subject and its qualities to the object, are logicallyfalse. Yet in mankind this procedure, resting ona falseknowledge pairing together the true and theuntrue, is inborn or natural (naisargika), so that theytransfer the being and qualities of the one to theother, not separating object and subject, althoughthey are absolutely different, and so saying, forexample, This am That isI,"mine," etc. Thistransference thus made the wise term Avidya(ignorance), and, in contradistinction to it, they callthe accurate determination of the true nature ofthings ("the being-in-itselfof things,vastusvarupam)Vidyd (knowledge). If this be so, it followsthat that to which a similar false transfer is thusmade, is not in the slightest degree affected by anywant or excess caused thereby.All this goes to show that the final reason of thefalse empirical concept is to be sought in the natureof our cognitive faculty, as this passage clearlybringsthis itout the unalterableness of the Self. Frommay rightly be inferredthat the ground ofthe erroneous empirical conceptis to be sought forsolely in the knowing subject ;in this subject theavidyd, as repeatedly asserted, 1 is innate (nai-* Cf. Sankara s Sarirakabhasya, Bibl. Ind., p. 10, 1. i,p. 21. 7, 807. 13,