Advaitasiddhi 2.6

2.6

nanu- astu caitanyasya viṣayaprakāśakatvam, tathāpyantaḥkaraṇasya dehānnirgatiḥ na kalpyā. parokṣavailakṣaṇyāya viṣayasyābhivyaktāparokṣaciduparāga eva vaktavyaḥ. ciduparāgādau cāparokṣavṛttestadākāratvameva tantram. tasya ca tatsaṃśleṣaṃ vināpi parokṣavṛtteriva tatsannikṛṣṭakaraṇajanyatvenaivopapattiḥ, na tu prabhāyā iva vṛttestadāvaraṇanivartakatvādau tatsaṃśleṣastantram. netrānnirgacchad‌dhruvādyākāravṛttyaiva svasaṃśliṣṭanetrasthakajjalāderdhruvanetramadhyavartinaḥ

[Objection:] Even granting that consciousness reveals the object, nevertheless the exit of the internal organ from the body should not be assumed. To distinguish [it] from mediate cognition, all that need be stated is the coloring of the object by manifested immediate consciousness. And as for the coloring of consciousness and the like, only the immediate mental mode's taking the form of the object is essential; and that is accounted for, even without contact with it, merely by being produced by an instrument in contact with it, just like a mediate mental mode—contact with it is not essential for the mental mode's removing the veil of that [object] and so forth, as it is in the case of light. For by the mental mode exiting from the eye and taking the form of the pole star and the like, of the collyrium and the like situated in the eye itself in contact with it, intervening between the pole star and the eye...