tathāhyarthābhivyaktir eva jñānam ucyate nānyat, tasyāścābhivyakteḥ parokṣatve 'rthasyāpi parokṣatvaprasaṅgaḥ /
For thus, what is called cognition is nothing but the manifestation of an object, and if that manifestation were imperceptible, the object too would become imperceptible.