Bhāṣya
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In plain words
An objection: when the mind and the eye and the rest go about their work, what is the point of positing anyone presiding over them? Why can't they simply act on their own? And how can that presiding one be said to be, in its very nature, awareness that never lapses? To this he answers —
Close to the Sanskrit
But surely — in the activity of mind, eye and the rest, for what purpose is a presiding one postulated? Why do they not proceed of themselves alone? And how is being-eternal-awareness-by-nature asserted of the presiding one? Hence, to this, he says —