Verse 12

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In plain words

You look properly, and you see it is a rope. That seeing is what ends the terror the enormous snake caused — the snake that delusion raised up, and that was never there at all.

Close to the Sanskrit

The ascertainment of the truth of the rope, accomplished through right inquiry, is what destroys the misery born of the great snake that rose up through delusion.