Verse 48

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US-P06.004ab ।US-P06.004cd ॥

In plain words

It is the knower — the Self — that is always to be held, and it alone: let the knowable go. And whatever is grasped even as 'I' — that too is like a limb cut away from the body.

Close to the Sanskrit

The knower alone, the Self, is always to be grasped — alone, having cast off the knowable. That which is grasped even as 'I' — that indeed is like a severed limb.