Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.81

2.81

na ca rasavīryavipākādi samānam āśāmodakopārjitamodakānāṃ syād iti veditavyam/ vastuto vedyavedakākāravidhurāyā api buddher vyavahartṛparijñānānurodhena vibhinnagrāhyagrāhakākārarūpavattayā timirādyupahatākṣṇāṃ keśoṇḍukanāḍījñānabhedavad anādyupaplavavāsanāsāmarthyād vyavasthopapatteḥ paryanuyogāyogāt/ yathoktam:

Nor must it be supposed that (on this hypothesis) the juice, the energy, and the digestion derivable from an imaginary and an actual sweetmeat will be the same; for it cannot be questioned that though the intellect be in strictness exempt from the modes of object and subject, yet there is competent to it a practical distinction in virtue of the succession of illusory ideas without beginning, by reason of its possessing diverse modes percept and percipient, conformably to its illusory supposition of practical agency, just as to those whose eyes are dim with some morbid affection a hair and another minute object may appear either diverse or identical; as it has been said—