Verse 14

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कामातङ्कः खण्डितो वा ततः किंकोपावेशः कुण्ठितो वा ततः किम् ।लोभाश्लेषो वर्जितो वा ततः किंयेन स्वात्मा नैव साक्षात्कृतोऽभूत् ॥ १४ ॥

In plain words

You have destroyed the affliction of desire — what of it? You have blunted the onrush of anger — what of it? You have cast off the grip of greed — what of it, if you never once came face to face with your own Ātma?

Close to the Sanskrit

Whether the affliction of desire has been destroyed — from that, what? Whether the onrush of anger has been blunted — from that, what? Whether the embrace of greed has been abandoned — from that, what? — for one by whom his own Ātma was not at all directly realized.