US-P12.018ab ।US-P12.018cd ॥
In plain words
So: once scripture and reasoning have let your own nature be known, how could this thought — "I am someone to be commanded" — still be true?
Close to the Sanskrit
Thus, one's own nature having been understood by means of scripture and reasoning, how indeed could this cognition — 'I am one to be enjoined' — be true?