Nyāya Sūtras 92.3

92.3

nāsti vyāghātaḥ, na hy ātmamanaḥsannikarṣasya jñānakāraṇatvaṃ vyabhicarati/ indriyārthasannikarṣasya prādhānyam upādīyate/ arthaviśeṣaprābalyād dhi suptavyāsaktamanasāṃ jñānotpattir ekadā bhavati/ arthaviśeṣaḥ kaścid evendriyārthaḥ, tasya prābalyaṃ tīvratāpaṭute/ tac cārthaviśeṣaprābalyam indriyārthasannikarṣaviṣayaṃ nātmamanasoḥ sannikarṣaviṣayam, tasmād indriyārthasannikarṣaḥ pradhānam iti/

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.