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In plain words
Or take blinking: the eye cannot shut and open in the same instant — and jñāna and karma are exactly like that. For people facing west, how can there be any seeing of the east? And for someone whose mind has tilted inward, where would the fitness for action come from?
Close to the Sanskrit
Or even in the case of the closing and the opening of the eyes — likewise indeed of knowledge and action. For persons looking toward the west, whence the beholding of the east? For one whose mind is inclined inward, whence fitness for action?