Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.10

16.10

tad etat pratyavasthānam asthāne/ na hi vayaṃ pradhānavad avidyāṃ sarveṣu jīveṣv ekām ācakṣmahe yenaivam upālabhyemahi/ api tv iyaṃ pratijīvaṃ bhidyate/ tena yasyaiva jīvasya vidyotpadyate tasyaivāvidyā samucchidyate nānyasya/ bhinnāyatanayos tayor virodhābhāvāt/ ato na samastasaṃsārocchedaprasaṅgadoṣaḥ/ tasmāt pariṇāmaḥ parityaktavyaḥ/ svīkartavyaś ca vivartavādaḥ/

This counter-objection is misplaced. For we do not declare nescience to be one across all individual selves like the Pradhāna, such that we would incur this fault. Rather, it is distinct in every individual self. Hence, nescience is destroyed only in that individual self in whom knowledge arises, not in another, because there is no opposition between the two when their loci are different. Therefore, the fault of the contingent destruction of all worldly existence does not apply. Consequently, transformation must be abandoned, and the doctrine of apparent transformation must be accepted.