Nothing has arisen as an entity, nothing exists anywhere. Abiding in the certainty that the Self alone is all, one attains liberation

The negation of sambhūti —origin, arising— constitutes the ajāti-vāda doctrine of Gauḍapāda: the world is unborn because it was never non-existent as such; it is consciousness itself in its objective aspect. The na kiñcid vidyate —nothing is known— is not skepticism but gnosis: only the ātman is known, and all ‘knowledge’ of objects is but an indirect knowledge of the ātman. Niścaya —certainty— is the unshakable foundation upon which the life of the jīvanmukta rests: not faith but evidence, not belief but ascertainment.