The Entitative Manifestations. Doctrine of “Three Natures.” Universality and Particularity

Abstract

As the substance, in its garbha-ālaya (matrix-store) aspects, sets itself forth towards the actualization of its potentialities and as the sphere of “determination” comes about, the endless ever-remaining groundlessness of the undetermined comes to manifest itself entitatively. This is the stringent result of the potential relation of the undetermined to the determined becoming actual. As the “undetermined” aspect of the essence becomes the ever-present, all-encompassing, all-pervading medium of “determination,” the “undetermined” itself becomes entitatively manifest as an aspect of total reality, in a way similar to the “hemp” which becomes manifest as an entitative aspect of the “rope.” The “undetermined,” as becoming “manifest” in this way, is called parinispanna, or the “perfected” or absolute Nature. Being an “entitative manifestation,” pariniṣpanna becomes also a dimension for “cognitive manifestation” in individual consciousness. The “entitative manifestation” of the undetermined as actually positing itself as the substratum of the determined, will become “cognitive manifestation” through the individual mental event of samādhi (highest state of abstract, “empty mind”-concentration), as will be seen later.