Verse 472

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US-P18.061ab ।US-P18.061cd ॥

In plain words

If the deluded world's familiar assumption — that there is no Self — is to be taken as valid knowledge, then the materialists' doctrine follows, and that is a conclusion nobody here wanted.

Close to the Sanskrit

If the common notion of the deluded world — namely, selflessness — is to be accepted, then that undesired doctrine of the materialists follows as a consequence.