atha pradīpavat prakāśatayātmaviṣayatvamasyābhyupagamyate tadā svasaṃvitter anabhimatāyāḥ prasaṅgaḥ syāt jñānasya cāpratyakṣatvam iṣṭaṃ vyāhanyeta
If then it is accepted that, like a lamp, it has the Self as its object through [its] luminosity, then the undesired consequence of self-awareness would follow and the accepted imperceptibility of cognition would be contradicted.