Verse 296

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US-P16.047ab ।US-P16.047cd ॥

In plain words

And if primal nature acts for the sake of the Self, then the liberated and the bound cannot be told apart at all. Nor can there be any relation between a thing wanted and someone who wants it: the knower wants nothing, and whatever is not the knower cannot want.

Close to the Sanskrit

And on the assumption of being-for-the-sake-of-that, a distinction of the liberated and the bound is not tenable; and a relation between the object and the one who seeks it [is not tenable either] — the knower is not a seeker, nor is the other either.