Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.131

16.131

yathā caitat tathā niśamyatām/ saṃnihitarajatagocaraṃ hi vijñānam idamaṃśarajatāṃśayor asaṃsargaṃ nāvagāhate/ tayoḥ saṃsṛṣṭatvenāsaṃsargasyaivābhāvāt/ nāpi svagataṃ bhedam/ ekajñānatvāt/ evaṃ grahaṇasmaraṇe api doṣavaśād vidyamānam apīdamaṃśarajatāṃśayor asaṃsargaṃ bhedaṃ nāvagāhete iti/ bhedāgrahaṇam eva sārūpyam/ tad uktaṃ gurumatānusāribhiḥ :

[Reply:] Listen to how this is so: a cognition having proximate silver as its object does not grasp a non-relation between the "this"-part and the silver-part, because, since the two are connected, there is no non-relation at all; nor does it grasp any internal distinction within itself, because it is a single cognition. In the same way, apprehension and memory too, due to the influence of defects, do not grasp the non-relation—the distinction—between the "this"-part and the silver-part, even though it exists. Non-apprehension of distinction alone is the resemblance. That has been stated by the followers of the Guru's system: