Verse 210

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US-P15.014ab ।US-P15.014cd ॥

In plain words

Whatever the mind dwells on, it becomes; yet this applies when the object is something other than oneself, not to the realization of the absolute Self. In that supreme selfhood, nothing depends on another, whereas whatever is dependent cannot be that very Self.

Close to the Sanskrit

One becomes what one’s mind dwells on when that is another thing. There is no action in the Self for attaining selfhood: being the Self, it depends on nothing; what depends on another is not that thing itself.