Verse 370

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US-P17.048ab ।US-P17.048cd ॥

In plain words

When scripture declares what the Self is, its one effect is this: you turn away from action and everything that hangs on it. The Self is not a goal to be reached, and not a means to reach anything else. It is content, always, and śruti holds it so.

Close to the Sanskrit

Of the injunction concerning the nature of the Self, the effect is turning away from action and the rest. The Self is not something to be accomplished, nor a means; eternally content, it is so held on the authority of śruti.