Everything appears and thus goes; everything is false, it does not shine by itself

What appears (bhāti) and what is false (mṛṣā) are not two categories of things but two ways of seeing the same thing. An object appears in consciousness — that is undeniable. But it appears with the consistency of a shape in a cloud: a name is given to it, a contour attributed, a reality assigned that it does not have on its own. It does not shine with its own light (na bhāsate); it is illuminated by the consciousness that contains it.