api ca yathā buddhir arthapraticchittau jāyamānaiva vyāpārarahitāpi sattāmātreṇa vyāpriyate tathā sarveṣām api bhāvānāṃ hetutvam uttarakālabhāvivyāpāramantareṇa bhaviṣyatītyetad darśayati buddher ityādi /
Moreover, just as cognition, when it arises in the form of apprehension of its object, operates through its mere existence without [any additional] operation, similarly the causal nature of all entities will exist without any subsequent operation – this is what [the author] shows [in the following].