US-P12.014ab ।US-P12.014cd ॥
In plain words
Even the thought "I am the knower alone — unknowable, pure, always free" is a notion belonging to the intellect, discerning as it is. Because it is something seen. Because it perishes.
Close to the Sanskrit
Even the notion 'I am the knower alone, unknowable, pure, always free' — this discriminating cognition belongs to the intellect, because it is an object of perception and because it is perishable.