Cryptic Clues.

नायमात्मा प्रवचनेन लभ्यो
न मेधया न बहुना श्रुतेन ।
यमेवैष वृणुते तेन लभ्य-
स्तस्यैष आत्मा विवृणुते तनूँ-स्वाम् ॥
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(कठोपनिषद् 1/2/23, मुण्डकोपनिषद् 3/2/3)
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nāyamātmā pravacanena labhyo
na medhayā na bahunā śrutena |
yamevaiṣa vṛṇute tena labhya-
stasyaiṣa ātmā vivṛṇute tanūm̐-svām ||
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(kaṭhopaniṣad 1/2/23, muṇḍakopaniṣad 3/2/3)

Looks cryptic, ...
There are 'two' entities :
the 'self' / 'person', the apparent  illusory / entity, which has but a conceptual existence and which keeps emerging out from and disappearing into the True Being 'The Self'.
This shloka explains this fact in two ways.
यमेवैष वृणुते तेन लभ्य could be thought of being applicable to both these entities in different ways. And as the 'self' is but the shadow-existence while 'Self' The True, contemplating the above shloka in these two ways helps immensely in understanding the true purport of the shloka.
When the 'self' / 'person' seeks what it is made of, it soon finds out it is of the nature of a flux / phenomenal appearance. But the Support where-in this phenomenon happens is The 'Self', stable, firm foundation.
When That foundation removes the ignorance of the 'person', and abides in its Reality, it is its 'Freedom' from the apparent / illusory 'person'.
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My mind is confused, yet I am convinced I know (my?) mind.
Though I inadvertently, because of my negligence of this fact,
mistake myself for the mind, I at once also know clearly,
without least doubt :
<I'm not mind> .
When I solve this riddle, in a split second I embrace my True identity.
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