Agnipurana 378.20

378.20

duḥkhajñānamayo 'dharmaḥ prakṛteḥ sa tu nātmanaḥ /
jalasya nāgninā saṅgaḥ sthālīsaṅgāttathāpi hi //

What consists of misery and ignorance is unrighteousness; that belongs to nature, but not to the self. / Water has no contact with fire, yet through contact with the pot [it is heated];