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In plain words
The Ācārya replies: 'Well spoken; now you see clearly. Why, then, did you speak falsely before, saying, “I am a Brāhmaṇa's son of such a family; I was a Brahmacārin or a Gṛhastha, and now I am a Paramahaṃsa Parivrāṭ”?'
Close to the Sanskrit
The Ācārya should say: 'You have spoken well; you see correctly. How, then, did you speak falsely when you said, “I am a Brāhmaṇa's son of such a lineage; I was a Brahmacārin or a Gṛhastha, and now I am a Paramahaṃsa Parivrāṭ”?'