US-P18.055ab ।US-P18.055cd ॥
In plain words
Nor is it proper to define pure awareness through a word for the act of knowing. For scripture declares that the Self is eternal, not something defined by modification.
Close to the Sanskrit
Nor, therefore, is the action-noun “cognition” applicable to the Self; for the Self is not mere modification, since scripture teaches that the Self is eternal.