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Verses on the Recognition of the Lord14.4

14.4
स्वातन्त्र्यहानिर् बोधस्य स्वातन्त्र्यस्याप्य् अबोधता द्विधाणवं मलम् इदं स्वस्वरूपापहानितः ॥४॥
svātantryahānir bodhasya svātantryasyāpy abodhatā dvidhāṇavaṃ malam idaṃ svasvarūpāpahānitaḥ
— the loss of freedom ; — of consciousness ; — of freedom (autonomy) ; — also, and ; — the loss of consciousness ; — twofold ; — pertaining to the atomic (individual) self ; — the impurity (mala) ; — this ; — from the loss of one's own essential nature

The loss of consciousness's freedom, and likewise the loss of consciousness on the part of (that) freedom — this twofold āṇava-mala arises from the forfeiting of one's own essential nature.