Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.84

16.84

Since conjunction, which is held to reside in a part, is impossible to establish in a partless atom, and consequently the dyad dependent on it is unestablished, the theory of creation beginning with the dyad is impossible; and since the theory of the transformation of insentient primordial matter into the form of the intellect and the rest is also impossible; it is established, because otherwise cognition and sublation are inexplicable, that the phenomenal world is inexplicable and is an illusory manifestation of consciousness. An illusory manifestation is the assumption of another form without abandoning its own essential nature; it is an appearance designated as true-and-false. Appearance and superimposition are synonyms. And that superimposition is of two kinds: superimposition of an object and superimposition of a cognition. That has been stated: