evaṃ hi viṣayāntarasañcāro na prāpnoti tathā hi pūrvapūrvā buddhiruttarottarasya jñānasya viṣayabhāvenāvathitā pratyāsannā copādānakāraṇatayātāṃ tādṛśīmantaraṅgikāṃ tyaktvā kathaṃ ca bahiraṅgamarthaṃ gṛhṇīyāt
Thus indeed, there would be no possibility of transition to other objects, because each preceding cognition, being established as the object of each succeeding cognition and being proximate as [its] material cause, how could [the cognition], abandoning such an internal [object], grasp an external object?