Verse 488

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। ॥ ४८८ ॥

In plain words

Avidyā is the one adjunct that seems to fasten itself onto you, and it holds two immense powers: vikṣepa, which throws up a world, and āvṛti, which covers over what is already there. By these two, and these two alone, the Self has a saṃsāra at all.

Close to the Sanskrit

Of ignorance, which is the limiting adjunct of the Self, there is a great twofold power: projection and veiling — thus — by which two there is saṃsāra of the Self.