तक्रादिलवणोपेतमज्ञैर्लवणवद्यथा ।आत्मा स्थूलादिसंयुक्तो दूष्यते स्थूलकादिवत् ॥ १९ ॥
In plain words
Salt is stirred into buttermilk, and the ignorant taste it and say: salt. As if the buttermilk had become the salt. So too with the ātman: joined to the gross body and its layers, it is blamed for being coarse, thick, decaying — as if it were one of them.
Close to the Sanskrit
Just as buttermilk and the like, endowed with salt, is taken by the ignorant to be salt, so the Self, joined with the gross body and the rest, is faulted as being gross and the rest.