Verse 628

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। ॥ ६२८ ॥

In plain words

Whatever you hold dear never once becomes unwelcome to you. And nothing else is dear the way the Self is dear — in ruin as much as in abundance, nothing else holds like that.

Close to the Sanskrit

But that which is held as dear — that is never disagreeable for men. As the Self is, in calamity as well as in prosperity, not so is anything other.