The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 211

p. 211

जनैः स्वकर्मस्तिमितात्मनिश्चयैरालक्ष्यते ब्रूहि किमत्र वस्तु ॥

In plain words

People whose conviction about the Self has gone numb from their own endless doing — this is what they claim to see. Tell me: what is actually real here?

Close to the Sanskrit

By people whose certainty about the Self has been benumbed by their own works, it is discerned; tell me, what is the real thing here?