na ca tadeva jñānamāśritā satī śaktis tasyaivotpādikā yujyate anāśritatvaprasaṅgāt samānakālaṃ ca kāryakāraṇabhāvād upapatteḥ /
And a capacity that is dependent on a cognition cannot be productive of that very same cognition, because [this] would lead to [the absurd consequence of its] being non-dependent, and because a cause-effect relationship is possible only when [both terms] exist simultaneously.