The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Aparokṣānubhūtiḥ

Verse 29

स्वदेहं शोभनं त्यक्त्वा पुरुषाख्यं च संमतम् ।किं मूर्ख शून्यमात्मानं देहातीतं करोषि भोः ॥ २९ ॥

In plain words

You throw away your own body — good-looking, called a person, and everyone agrees that is what you are. And then, fool, you make the ātman into a blank, something outside the body altogether? Why? Come on!

Close to the Sanskrit

Having abandoned your own body — handsome, named 'person', and accepted as such — why, O fool, do you make the Self a void, beyond the body? Hey!