Verse 272

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US-P16.022ab ।US-P16.022cd ॥

In plain words

When perception is bound to bodily locations, the intellect takes that very limitation for its self; seeing this, the witness appears as though he extended only as far as the body.

Close to the Sanskrit

There might be location-delimited vision of the senses; the intellect having attained identity with those senses, seeing that indeed, the knower is seen as though limited to the body’s extent.