। ॥ २२७ ॥
In plain words
Of every discipline there is, mumukṣā — the wanting to be free — is the root cause. If you do not want it, you never begin; and if you never begin, where is the hearing, and where, then, the fruit it bears?
Close to the Sanskrit
But of all the means, the desire for liberation is the root cause. For one who does not desire, who has not set out — where is hearing, and where indeed its fruit?