Verse 16

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In plain words

You have won Brahmā's world — what of it? You have beheld Viṣṇu's world — what of it? You have ruled Śambhu's world — what of it, if you never once came face to face with your own Ātma?

Close to the Sanskrit

Whether Brahmā's world has been won — from that, what? Whether Viṣṇu's world has been beheld — from that, what? Whether Śambhu's world has been ruled — from that, what? — for one by whom his own Ātma was not at all directly realized.