syad etat saṃvidrūpatvena sukhādimayatvasya yadā vyāptiḥ siddhā bhavet tadā tannivartamānaṃ śabdādiṣu sukhādimayatvaṃ nivartayedyāvatā saiva na siddhā puruṣasyaiva saṃvidrūpatveneṣṭatvādityata āha vyaktyatvāt tatsvasaṃvidaiti /
[One might object:] "This would be [valid] only when the pervasion of being made of pleasure etc. by having the nature of consciousness is established - then its absence would exclude the being made of pleasure etc. in sound and the rest; but this [pervasion] itself is not established since [your] puruṣa itself is accepted as having the nature of consciousness." To this [the author] says: "because of manifestness through their own consciousness."