Verse 258

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US-P16.008ab ।US-P16.008cd ॥

In plain words

Your head aches, and you look at yourself and say, "I am in pain." But the seer is not the sufferer — the sufferer is something the seer is looking at. And because seeing is all it does, the seer is never the one in pain.

Close to the Sanskrit

Because of headache and the like, one indeed sees oneself thus: 'I am in pain.' The seer is other than the one in pain, since that one is an object seen; and because of being the seer, that one is not in pain.