Aphorisms on Brahman 2.331.2

2.331.2

yadyapi bhoktā praśāsitā vā kaściccetanaḥ saṃhantā sthiro nābhyupagamyate tathāpyavidyādīnāmitaretarakāraṇatvādupapadyate lokayātrā /
tasyāṃ copapadyamānāyāṃ vā kiñcidaparamapekṣitavyamasti /
te cāvidyādayo 'vidyā saṃskāro vijñānaṃ nāma rūpaṃ ṣaḍāyatanaṃ sparśā vedanā tṛṣṇā upādānaṃ bhavo jātirjarā maraṇaṃ śokaḥ paridevanā duḥkhaṃ durmanastetyevañjātīyakā itaretarahetukāḥ saugate samaye kvacitsaṃkṣiptā nirdiṣṭāḥ kvacitprapañcitāḥ /
sarveṣāmapyayamavidyādikalāpo 'pratyākhyeyaḥ /
tadevamavidyādikalāpe parasparanimittanaimittikabhāvena ghaṭīyantravadaniśamāvartamāner'thākṣipta upapannaḥ saṃghāta iti cet /

Although there exists no permanent intelligent principle of the nature either of a ruling Lord or an enjoying soul, under whose influence the formation of aggregates could take place, yet the course of mundane existence is rendered possible through the mutual causality of Nescience and so on, so that we need not look for any other combining principle.

The series beginning with Nescience comprises the following members: Nescience, impression, knowledge, name and form, the abode of the six, touch, feeling, desire, activity, birth, species, decay, death, grief, lamentation, pain, mental affliction, and the like. All these terms constitute a chain of causes and are as such spoken of in the Bauddha system, sometimes cursorily, sometimes at length. They are, moreover, all acknowledged as existing, not by the Bauddhas only, but by the followers of all systems. And as the cycles of Nescience, &c. forming uninterrupted chains of causes and effects revolve unceasingly like water-wheels, the existence of the aggregates (which constitute bodies and minds) must needs be assumed, as without such Nescience and so on could not take place.