Verse 661

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US-P19.022ab ।US-P19.022cd ॥

In plain words

If such a confusion of reality and unreality is not accepted, how could birth take place? When being and non-being are properly distinguished, this duality remains clearly defined in its own place; therefore, O mind, nothing is born.

Close to the Sanskrit

If that reversal of existence and non-existence is not accepted, how could birth occur while existence and non-existence remain fixed? These two stand distinct and settled; therefore, O mind, nothing is born.