yady evam avasthāntaravat sāmānyātmanyapi layo 'vasthānamayukto virodhādityāśaṅkyāha svarūpeṇa hītyādi
[One might] object: "If this is so, then like [the impossibility of simultaneous] different states, the merging and remaining in the common Self would also be unsuitable due to contradiction" - [to this he] responds: "Indeed in its own form..." and so forth