Verse 418

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US-P18.007ab ।US-P18.007cd ॥

In plain words

The knowledge "I am Being" comes from a real means of knowing. Every other idea of yourself springs from something that only looks like one — and even when it wears the face of perception, it is cancelled, the way being certain that north is over there is cancelled.

Close to the Sanskrit

The cognition 'I am Being' arises from a valid means of knowledge; any other cognition, arising from what merely resembles that, or even resembling perception and the rest, is refuted, like directional confusion and the like.