15.16-18 Dvav imau etc. upto Purusottamah.  What has been stated in the passage  'There are two persons in the world etc.', is this :  The body organism is made of the earth and other elements.  In the world every person, unitelligent by nature, takes the body for the Self and [hence]  views the Soul to be of perishing nature.  Hence, the sense of duality does not come to an end with regard to the worldly persons, because of  their delusion.  But I am (the I-consciousness is)  the One favouring all, and by cutting the daulity-knot I am to be realised as the One pervading all.
 
(I) have transcended the perishing :   Since the elements are insentient.  (I)  have transcended the nonperishing :  Since the omnipresence  [of the Self] is cut off (not comprehended) when the Self is not properly realised.  In the world and in the Veda too I am acclaimed as the Highest of  Persons :  The Self same Supreme Self, admitting no duality, is described in this manner with the sentences  'He is he Highest Person'  and the like.