US-P16.010ab ।US-P16.010cd ॥
In plain words
Suppose you say the Self can be both the seen and the seer, the way an eye is. No. That eye is many, an assembled thing, put together out of parts. So the Self, being the seer, never becomes an object.
Close to the Sanskrit
If it be said that being object and agent could hold, as in the case of the eye — no; that is indeed manifold, and composite. Therefore the Self, because of being the seer, would not go to objecthood.