The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 277

p. 277

जनानां हृदये संनिविष्टः ।तं स्वाच्छरीरात्प्रवृहेन्मुञ्जादिवेषीकां धैर्येण तं विद्याच्छुक्रममृतम्’ इति ॥

In plain words

Lodged in the heart of every person. Draw that one out of the body you call your own, the way the pith slides out of a muñja reed — steadily, without force. Know that one: radiant, deathless. So the text says.

Close to the Sanskrit

Of people, seated in the heart. Him one should draw out from one's own body, as the reed-pith from the muñja grass, with steadiness; him one should know as bright, immortal — thus.