yadi hyekasya pūrvottarakālānuyāyina ātmāder nityasya kāryatvam eṣāṃ nīlādipratyayānāṃ syāt tadā kramabhāvitvam eṣāṃ virudhyeta /
For if these cognitions of blue and other [objects] were effects of a single eternal [entity] like the ātman that persists through prior and subsequent times, then their sequential nature would be contradicted.