US-P16.017ab ।US-P16.017cd ॥
In plain words
Ignorance is the root of all mental projection and the sustainer of worldly life. Leave that ignorance behind and know the Self as the supreme Brahman, eternally free and fearless.
Close to the Sanskrit
Having abandoned ignorance, the root of imagination and the regulator of saṃsara, one should know the Self as supreme Brahman, free and always fearless.