Verse 481

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US-P18.070ab ।US-P18.070cd ॥

In plain words

A reflection copies the mirror it falls in — and then the copying gets pinned on the face. In just the same way, the reflected glow of consciousness copies whatever the intellect is doing: that is how it is taken.

Close to the Sanskrit

The conformity to the mirror, which belongs to the reflection, is cast upon the face; likewise the imitation of the intellect's attributes, which belongs to the reflection of knowing, is held to be so.