Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.143

16.143

[Reply:] it is not so; because, when two apprehensions whose distinction is unapprehended have attained resemblance to a cognition of a valid connection, they can indeed bring about practical activity. The yellowness of the bilious substance present in the rays of the eye is apprehended, due to defects, devoid of its substance; the conch too is apprehended in its own form, its white quality ungrasped. Therefore, because of the resemblance consisting in the non-apprehension of the non-relation of these two—the quality and the possessor of the quality—which are capable of relation, practical activity is accounted for due to the lack of difference from the cognition of a yellow lump of gold. As it has been said: