tatra prathamokteṣu hrāsahetuṣu kāryakāraṇabhāve 'pi satyajñānatimiratirodhīyamānajñānāloko loko viruddhatvam abhimanyate /
In regard to these first-mentioned causes of decrease, even though there is a cause-effect relationship, people whose light of knowledge is obscured by the darkness of ignorance imagine [there to be] opposition.