Verse 282

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मर्त्यत्वसिद्धेरपि पुंस्त्वसिद्धे -र्विप्रत्वसिद्धेश्च विवेकसिद्धेः ।वदन्ति मुख्यं फलमेव मोक्षंव्यर्थं समस्तं यदि चेन्न मोक्षः ॥ २८२ ॥

In plain words

A human birth attained, manhood attained, brāhmaṇa birth attained, and viveka itself attained — of all of it, they say, the one fruit that counts is mokṣa. If liberation does not come, the whole of it was for nothing.

Close to the Sanskrit

Of the attainment of mortal (human) birth also, of the attainment of manhood, of the attainment of brāhmaṇa-hood, and of the attainment of discrimination — they declare the chief fruit to be liberation alone; the whole of it is purposeless if in fact there is no liberation.