Verse 462

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In plain words

Out of sheer confusion: I am a human being. I am a brahmin. I am one who knows brahman. I am ignorant. I am a terrible sinner. I have fallen, I am refined, I am happy, I am in pain. Thoroughly lost, they invent all of it and lay it on the ātman.

Close to the Sanskrit

Through delusion: 'I am a human being, I am a twice-born, I am a knower of That, I am ignorant, I am exceedingly sinful; I am fallen, I am cultured, and happy, and suffering' — thus, being utterly confused, they imagine (these) in the Self.