Verse 858

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। ॥ ८५८ ॥

In plain words

The Self's bath is the washing off of a stain the mind invented. That alone makes it clean — not clay, not water.

Close to the Sanskrit

The washing away of the impurity imagined by the intellect is the bathing of the Self; by that alone is the purity of this one — not by clay and not by water.