“Does substantiation mean being known, being endowed with existence, or anything else? You should remember the two alternatives spoken of in the previous verse if it means ‘being known’.
As it is well-known that all things come in to existence from their causes no effort ( by way of the application of an evidence ) is necessary for substantiation.” (#136/137 Chap. XVIII Upadesa Sahasri)
This is a puzzling if not somewhat gnomic verse. What I understand from it is that the Self is self-evident, ‘pratibodha videtam’ known with every state of awareness and therefore substantiation in the received sense of established by the use of evidence does not apply.
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