US-P18.156ab ।US-P18.156cd ॥
In plain words
First, it is said, the thought spreads out and covers its object; only then does the Self grant its favour and light it up. But such a sequence cannot hold for the witness of the whole — no more than it holds for time, or space, or anything else of that kind.
Close to the Sanskrit
First there would be the pervasion by the cognition; thereafter, the favour of the Self. For the one who is the witness of the whole, that sequence is unwarranted — as with time, space, and the rest.