Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.66

16.66

śrutir eva niṣedhati vedāntavedyatvaṃ brahmaṇaḥ śrutir eva vidhatte/ na hi vedapratipādite ’rthe ’nupapanne vaidikānāṃ buddhiḥ khidyate/ api tu tadupapādanamārgam eva vicārayati/ tasmād ubhayam api pratipādanīyam/ viṣayatvaniṣedhakāni vākyāni/ vākyajanyavṛttivyaktasphuraṇalakṣaṇaphalāsaṃbhavavivakṣayā pravṛttāni/ viṣayatvabodhakāni tu vṛttijanyāvaraṇabhaṅgalakṣaṇaphalasaṃbhavavivakṣayā/ tad uktaṃ bhagavadbhiḥ :

Scripture itself negates, and scripture itself enjoins, that Brahman is to be known through Vedānta. For when an object taught by the Veda seems inappropriate, the intellect of Vedic thinkers does not falter; rather, it investigates only the way to reconcile it. Therefore, both [statements] are to be established. The statements negating its being an object are made with the intention to express the impossibility of the result characterized by the manifest shining forth brought about by a mental modification born of the sentence; but those teaching its being an object are made with the intention to express the possibility of the result characterized by the destruction of concealment brought about by a mental modification. As has been said by the Venerable [Author]: