The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Aparokṣānubhūtiḥ

Verse 70

सर्पत्वेन यथा रज्जू रजतत्वेन शुक्तिका ।विनिर्णीता विमूढेन देहत्वेन तथाऽऽत्मता ॥ ७० ॥

In plain words

A bewildered man looks at a rope and reaches a verdict: snake. He looks at a shell and reaches a verdict: silver. In exactly the same way he looks at his own selfhood and reaches a verdict: body.

Close to the Sanskrit

Just as the rope is definitively determined as snake-ness by a deluded person, and the mother-of-pearl as silver-ness, so too is Selfhood determined as body-ness.