Verse 162

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US-P14.016ab ।US-P14.016cd ॥

In plain words

The Self does not remember itself, and it does not forget — its awareness is never once interrupted. And that thought, "well, the mind remembers" — that thought is born of ignorance, and of nothing else.

Close to the Sanskrit

The Self indeed does not remember the Self, nor would it forget, since its consciousness is never interrupted. 'The mind too remembers' — this cognition is born from a cause that is ignorance.