The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 199

p. 199

यः अयं भूतानां देहो दृश्यते सः अप्रकाशः तमोऽचिद्घनः केवलं नरकः श्लेष्मासृक्पूयक्रिमिविण्मूत्रपरिपूर्णत्वात् ।तच्चाह भगवान्मनुः—‘अस्थिस्थूणं स्नायुबद्धं मांसशोणितवेष्टितम् ।चर्मापिनद्धं दुर्गन्धि पूर्णं मूत्रपुरीषयोः ॥जराशोकसमाविष्टं रोगायतनमातुरम् ।रजस्वलमनित्यं च भूतावासमिमं त्यजेत्’ इति ।एवमत्यन्तबीभत्सितमपि स्त्र्यादिदेहं

In plain words

The physical body of living beings is dark and inert, nothing more than a living hell filled with phlegm, blood, pus, worms, urine, and feces. As the revered Manu declared: 'With bones for pillars, bound by sinews, wrapped in flesh and blood, covered with skin, foul-smelling, and packed with waste; besieged by old age and grief, a house of disease, restless, fleeting, and built of mere elements—one should abandon this bodily dwelling.' Thus, even the intensely repulsive body of women and others...

Close to the Sanskrit

Which this body of beings is seen, that is devoid of light, dense with darkness and insentience, solely a hell because of being filled completely with phlegm, blood, pus, worms, feces, and urine. And the revered Manu has said: 'With bones for pillars, bound by tendons, wrapped in flesh and blood, covered with skin, foul-smelling, full of urine and feces; overwhelmed by old age and sorrow, an abode of diseases, afflicted, full of rajas, impermanent, and an abode of elements—one should abandon this dwelling.' Thus even the extremely repulsive body of women and others...