Verse 65

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। ॥ ६५ ॥

In plain words

Without dissolving the world of appearances, without knowing the truth of your own Self, how could mere outward words ever free anyone? They yield only the utterance itself.

Close to the Sanskrit

Without having effected the dissolution of the perceivable [world in one's experience], without having known the truth of the Self, how can liberation [come] for people, from external words, whose only fruit is [mere] assertion?