Verse 627

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। ॥ ६२७ ॥

In plain words

This is the dearest thing there is — dearer than your child, dearer than your wealth, dearer than anything else, dearer than everything put together. This Self: nothing stands closer in.

Close to the Sanskrit

This one alone is dearest — than a son even, than wealth even, than anything else even, than all; this Self is the utterly innermost.