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Now, such being the case, verily he who owing to untrained understanding looks upon his Self, which is isolated, as the agent, he of perverted intelligence, sees not.

This being so, one who, through an untrained understanding, sees the self alone as the doer, that person of poor judgement does not see.

Given these five causes, anyone who sees the self as the sole doer, because his understanding is not refined, does not see truly. Krishna calls such a person durmati, of poor judgement. The verse corrects a basic illusion of agency: the sense that I alone make things happen. Many traditions read this as pointing to the self (ātman) as a witness distinct from the activity of body and mind. The insight frees one from both pride in success and despair in failure.