Sbg 13.7 etassa

English Translation of Abhinavgupta's Sanskrit Commentary By Dr. S. Sankaranarayan 13.6-7 Mahabhutani etc. Iccha etc. The Unmanifest : the [prime] material cause. The organs : together with the mind, they are eleven in number. The object of the snese - organs : the colour etc., that are five in number. Sensibility : the perceiving energy i.e. the Individual Soul. Feeling of satisfaction (or self-?nd) : It is well known that at the last moment, when a given action is [just] begun or accomplished and desire, anger etc. (come up and accomplished) there arises - in the case of everone from Brahma (personal god) down to the worm-a feeling of satisfaction (or self-?nd) as 'This much is ite sufficient for me; what is the use of another one ? Let me always be in this manner',-a feeling which upholds one's life, and is in the form of consolation and which is called by the expression raga in the highly secret ?ndments. (5-6)

The Field has been explained as above; so also the Field-sensitizer.  Now  [what conduces to the true]  knowledge is mentioned as-