Nyāya Sūtras 92

No, because of the force of a particular object.

There is no contradiction, for the status of contact between the self and the mind as a cause of cognition does not fail. Preeminence is attributed to contact between the sense organ and the object. For due to the force of a particular object, the arising of cognition sometimes occurs in those who are asleep or whose minds are elsewhere engaged. A particular object is just a certain object of the senses; its force is intensity and sharpness. And that force of a particular object pertains to contact between the sense organ and the object, not to contact between the self and the mind; therefore, contact between the sense organ and the object is preeminent.

In the absence of focused attention and in the absence of intention, regarding the cognition that arises from contact between a sense organ and an object in those who are asleep or whose minds are distracted, because the conjunction with the mind is also a cause therein, a cause of motion in the mind must be stated. Just as, indeed, this effort born of desire in the knower is a quality of the self that impels the mind, so also there exists in the self another quality born of activity and defect that accomplishes everything, impelled by which the mind is connected with a sense organ. For when the mind is not impelled by that, non-production of cognition would occur owing to the absence of conjunction, and its capacity to apprehend all objects would cease. And one must accept that this other quality is a cause of substances, qualities, and motions; otherwise, because no cause of motion other than that would be possible for the four kinds of atoms, the subtle elements, and minds, the consequence would be the non-production of bodies, sense organs, and objects.