। ॥ १७ ॥
In plain words
And if you lose this human body and end up instead in the body of an animal — where you cannot even understand your own body, let alone anything else — what hope is there of ever speaking of the ultimate truth?
Close to the Sanskrit
When, having lost the human body, one attains bodies such as those of animals — given ignorance even of one's own body in that state, what talk is there here of the highest truth?