nanu svabhāvādutpadyamānaḥ katham ahetuko bhavati yāvatā svabhāva eva tasya hetuḥ pratīyata ity āha svakriyāyā virodhata iti svasmin svarūpe kriyāyā hetubhāvasya virodhāt /
[One might ask:] "How can something produced from [its] own nature be causeless, when its own nature itself is perceived as its cause?" [The answer] states that due to contradiction of self-action, because causal action in/upon one's own essence is contradictory.