How do personal attachments and pride act as barriers to true knowledge?

Chapter 50 identifies personal attachments and pride as significant forms of ignorance (Avidya) that prevent the arising of true knowledge. The text explicitly calls out the thought 'I am the body, mine are wife and home' as a vain effort and describes the thirst for sons and cattle as ropes that bind a person. It further explains that even those who consider themselves wise 'Pandits', skilled in scriptures and possessing great genius, can be trapped. Their internal pride and the feeling that 'there is no other equal to me' is identified as a major cause for dissatisfaction and a form of Maya. Chapter 50 states that the wise must remove these veils at the beginning for knowledge to arise.