Verse 454

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US-P18.043ab ।US-P18.043cd ॥

In plain words

Whatever holds a reflection of the Self holds it exactly the way a mirror holds the reflection of a face. Scripture and reasoning together settle the other half of it too: the reflection has no being of its own.

Close to the Sanskrit

And thus the supports of the Self's reflection are just as the supports of the face's reflection are; and by scripture and reasoning the very unrealness of the reflection is understood.