tasmād upalabdhikṣaṇaprāptasya tathāvidhajñānātmano 'nupalabdher asadvyavahāraviṣayataiveti bhāvaḥ /
Therefore, because such a conscious self, which would be apprehended if present at the moment of cognition, is not apprehended, it is simply an object of the convention of non-existence - this is the meaning.