The Secret Doctrine of Goddess Lalita
(Sri LalitaAṣṭottara Rahasyārthamu)
41: jñānajñēya svarūpiṇī 42: sāmarasya parāyaṇā
She who is both knowledge and the known.
She who is immersed in a state of steady wisdom.
In this manner, when the light of Knowledge in the form of a vṛtti of brahman dispels the darkness that appears as the phenomenal world, the great Goddess appears in Her true nature as both subject and object. Aren’t subject (knower) and object (known) mutually exclusive entities? How can Devī appear as both? Knower or Knowledge is defined as illumination. When objects are perceived in the light of Consciousness, they lose their particular-ness (get blurred) and dissolve in Consciousness. Consciousness, when It transacts with the object world, appears as the object world. Hence, when we perceive the phenomenal world as a manifestation of Consciousness and not as a separate entity, our vision becomes homogenous and sees only Consciousness everywhere. The world will appear as Consciousness and Consciousness will appear as the world. This homogenous vision is impartial. It does not distinguish between the knower (subject) and the known (object). Both knower and known will be experienced as the Self in all.
Such a homogenous vision and intuitive knowledge of the Self in All is called sāmarasya. The one who sees the Self in all beings, and all beings in the Self is a samadarśi. This is the truth that all the Upanishads proclaim. The subject and the object are ātmā and anātmā respectively. When the two are seen as One, it is sāmarasya. The two become One only when they dissolve completely in the Supreme Self, which is Pure Consciousness. It is the substratum on which everything appears. Expansion of the Self is the world we perceive. Perception of the world as the Self is Knowledge. Knower (ātmā) and known (anātmā) are relative concepts that are dependent on each other. Since they are relative, they can merge into the Absolute. When the knower and the known merge into Pure Consciousness, ātmā alone IS, without a second. That Knowledge is Devī (sāmarasya pārāyaṇa).