Verse 337

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। ॥ ३३७ ॥

In plain words

What truly learned person - one who can tell the real from the unreal, who stands on the authority of scripture, who has actually seen the highest truth - would, while seeking liberation, still lean on the unreal like a trusting child, and bring about their own fall?

Close to the Sanskrit

What learned person - being discriminating between the real and the unreal, having scripture as authority, a seer of the highest truth, and knowing [all this] - being a seeker of liberation, would, like a child, take reliance on the unreal, [becoming] the cause of his own downfall?