Verse 2.609

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

अलौकिकत्वाद्बोधस्य स्वतश्चावगमात्मनः ।
बोध्ये हि लौकिकेऽपेक्षा परतोऽवगतौ तथा ॥ ६०९ ॥

alaukikatvādbodhasya svataścāvagamātmanaḥ |
bodhye hi laukike'pekṣā parato'vagatau tathā || 609 ||

English translation of verse 2.609:

Since the Self that is known is not an empirical object and since it is consciousness by its very nature, (there is no need of other pramāṇas). They are, indeed, required in respect of objects of knowledge, which are empirical and which are known by other means.

Notes:

There is yet another reason to show why other pramāṇas are not required for attaining the knowledge of Brahman. Stocks and stones which are empirical are known through perception and other pramāṇas. The latter have validity only with regard to empirical objects. But Brahman is not an empirical object. So it cannot be known through any of these pramāṇas. In short, only empirical objects which can be known by perception and other pramāṇas and which are insentient require these pramāṇas, but not the trans-empirical, self-luminous Brahman (svaprakāśavirahite laukike vastuni pramāṇāntarāpekṣā, na tu svaprakāśe pare brahmaṇi).