yata eva hi svarūpotpādamātād anyamaṃśaṃ sā buddhir na bibharti tata eva svasvabhāvavyavasthitatvād buddher buddhyantarādvyavacchedaḥ pratīyate, anyathā hyanyasya rūpaṃ bibhratī kathaṃ tato vyavacchinnā pratīyete /
Indeed, precisely because that cognition does not bear any other aspect apart from the mere arising of its own form, because of being established in its own nature, the exclusion of [one] cognition from another cognition is apprehended; otherwise, if it were bearing the form of another, how could it be apprehended as excluded from that [other]?