The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c5.s2.t2.3

c5.s2.t2.3

However this transference be defined, (p. 12, 1—14, 3) in any case it comes to this, that qualities of one thing appear in another, as when mother-of-pearl is taken for silver, or when two moons are seen instead of one (p. 14, 3—5). This erroneous transference of the things and relations of the objective world to the inner Soul, the Self in the strictest sense of the word, is possible because the soul also is, in a certain sense, object, namely, object of presentation to the “I,” and, as our author here affirms, in no sense something transcendent, lying beyond the province of perception (*paroksham*). 30 “This transference, thus made, the wise term IGNORANCE “(avidyâ), and, in contradistinction to it, they call the accurate “determination of the own nature of things” (vastu-svarûpam, of the being-in-itself of things, as we should say) “KNOWLEDGE “(vidyâ). If this be so, it follows that that to which a [similar, “false] transfer is thus made, is not in the slightest degree “affected by any want or excess caused thereby” (p. 16, 1—4).