The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣyam

Verse 311

त इह व्याघ्रो वा सिँहो वा वृकोवा वराहो वा कीटो वा पतङ्गो वा दँ-शो वा मशको वा यद्यद्भवन्ति तदा-भवन्ति ॥ ३ ॥

In plain words

Whatever these creatures were in this world—whether a tiger, a lion, a wolf, a boar, an insect, a moth, a gadfly, or a mosquito—that is exactly what they become again when they return from deep sleep.

Close to the Sanskrit

They, in this world, whether a tiger, or a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or an insect, or a moth, or a gadfly, or a mosquito, whatever they are, that they become again.