The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s3.t7.24

c7.s3.t7.24

“It may be objected that, if, from its nature, the present“ation must be apprehended by something extending beyond it, “then this again by something beyond it, this, by something else “beyond it, and so in *infinitum*.—And further, if knowledge, “according to its nature, illumines like a lamp, and we assume “that this knowledge is known by another knowledge,—yet, “from the equality of these two, no relation of enlightener and “enlightened can exist, and the assumption becomes superfluous.”