 Nondual knowledge does not entail subject-object distinction like object cognitions because its content is identical to the consciousness illuminating the cognition. Its content is brahman itself (see, e.g., TaiUBh 2.1.1; MuUBh 3.1.2, 4; and BrSūBh 2.1.14). There is no call to apperceive this knowledge for the sake of a truth certifying inference. Extrinsic certification cannot determine its veridicality because intrinsic consciousness (svarūpajñānam) is self-illuminating and cannot be known by a second cognition. Its self-illumination entails its self-certification when directly known. The cognition’s modal form (vrttijñānam), however, is analogous to a self-immolating match. By recognizing its content, it cannibalizes its own modal form. It reveals its own modal appearance as an appearance, which is only brahman. In this process it loses its status as a means of knowledge, akin to a means of knowledge in a dream (BhGBh 2.69).