tasmāt svabhāvabhūtā vijñānasya śaktir abhinnayogakṣematvād vijñānasvabhāvavat prāgvijñānotpatter asatyeva kriyata ityaviruddham /
Therefore, since the capacity of cognition constitutes its very nature and shares the same fate [with it], like the nature of cognition [itself], it is non-existent before the arising of cognition and [then] comes into being - [this is] not contradictory.