Verse 84

एतावन्तमहं कालं कोऽभूवं चित्रमीदृशम् ।येनाहमेष मिथ्यैव दृढाहंकारतां गतः

In plain words

For all that time, what was I? How strange a thing — that I, this very self, had come, quite falsely, to so firm a state of ahaṃkāra!