The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s3.t7.14

c7.s3.t7.14

“It cannot be maintained that no external objects exist. Why? Because we apperceive them. For we apperceive an external object according to our perception of it as a column, a wall, a vessel, a cloth; and what we apperceive, cannot “not be. It is as though one who eats, while feeling completely satiated by what he is eating, should yet say: ‘I am not eating, and I have not been satiated.’ It is just the same when a person directly apperceives outward objets by touching them with the organs of sensation [p. 570] and at the same time assures us: ‘I do not apperceive them, and the objects are not there.’—How can we care for such talk?”