Verse 173

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US-P14.027ab ।US-P14.027cd ॥

In plain words

If the world after this one no longer frightens you, and death no longer frightens you either — then to you, who know the Self, even the rulers of the worlds are people to be pitied: Brahmā, Indra, all of them.

Close to the Sanskrit

For whom there is no fear of the world beyond, and likewise no fear of death — for that knower of the Self, even the lords, Brahmā and Indra included, would be objects of pity.