The conscious goal of knowing means the intention to ‘view-know’, the conscious purpose for the soul (atmabhav). The pure intention for the soul (atma-svabhav) - one’s personal purpose and one’s own pure intention!
How can we ‘view-know’? Only if we are ‘Shuddatma’ i.e. pure soul... how can the known be a knower?! The relative-self can only be the 'known' not the ‘knower-perceiver’. It makes logical sense.