Janaka’s negation continues. Any action physical, oral, mental or intellectual, implies a subject-object relationship. Subject is the source from which action commences and object is the one to which it proceeds. The two are separate, distanced from each other. Action is the process connecting the two. In seeing a tree, you are the subject and tree the object. Unless the seer and the visible are different, seeing will not be possible.

Well, this is true in the sensory plane, where gross substances exist. But mind is like space and cannot be divided as a thinker and a thought. When anything is divided, the divided parts will have to be separately placed. In trying to know something, you have to be different from the knowable. Knowing is the conjunction between the two. Can any such process be within our body, in Consciousness? The threefold division, tripuṭī, is inconceivable. Thus there is no Knower different from the knowable and known, no thinker different from the thinkable and the thought.

This is how Janaka asks: Where is any Knower? Where is any knowing process, involving movement, action? Where is even knowledge as the finished product, outcome? Likewise, there is no something nor anything. Altogether it is one homogeneous Consciousness. By its inscrutable power it manifests varietal notions. That is all. The Self alone is ever.