Verse 69

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। ॥ ७१ ॥

In plain words

Shove a gourd down under the water and it rises straight back up. The mind is the same: you set it in your own true nature by sheer effort, and out it slips again.

Close to the Sanskrit

The gourd-fruit, even though forcibly thrown downward inside the water, comes back upward; likewise the mind, placed in its own nature by effort, goes outward.