Verse 469

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। ॥ ४६९ ॥

In plain words

Not once has the Self ever turned up as something experienced. So how could you establish a resemblance to what has never been experienced — and establish it in the not-self, which is unlike it through and through?

Close to the Sanskrit

The Self has never at any time been experienced; how can a likeness of a thing never experienced be established in the non-Self, which is of a wholly different character?