Verse 361

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US-P17.039ab ।US-P17.039cd ॥

In plain words

Everything ordinary sight reaches is the non-Self, and it is always known at a remove — something stands in between. But seeing itself is the very nature of the Self. So that Brahman is handed down to us as pratyakṣa: immediate, present with nothing in between.

Close to the Sanskrit

For, because of an interposition, mediacy belongs to the non-Self, which is the object of worldly perception; but because seeing is the very nature of the Self, that Brahman is remembered as immediate.