The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Aparokṣānubhūtiḥ

Verse 72

कनकं कुण्डलत्वेन तरङ्गत्वेन वै जलम् ।विनिर्णीता विमूढेन देहत्वेन तथाऽऽत्मता ॥ ७२ ॥

In plain words

Gold gets settled as an earring. Water gets settled as a wave. And in exactly that way, someone lost in delusion has settled it: what you are, Ātman itself, is a body.

Close to the Sanskrit

Gold [is settled upon] as earring-ness, water indeed as wave-ness; likewise Self-hood has been settled upon, by the utterly deluded one, as body-ness.