Verse 46

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In plain words

Awareness is what lights up every instrument of knowing. And some set out to know that awareness — using an instrument of knowing. Great souls indeed: they want to burn fire with firewood.

Close to the Sanskrit

Those who wish to know, by means of a means-of-knowledge, that Consciousness which awakens the means-of-knowledge itself — those great souls wish to burn fire with firewood.