Verse 14

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US-P01.014ab ।US-P01.014cd ॥

In plain words

Knowledge wipes out the factors of action the way it wipes out the water you were certain you saw on a salt flat. It is by taking up the conviction that they are real that anyone sets out to act at all.

Close to the Sanskrit

Knowledge crushes the factors of action, as it crushes the notion of water on a salt flat. Having taken up the conviction that they are real, one resolves to perform action.