Verse 538

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In plain words

It passes through one stage after another — infant, youth, elder — and it began in semen and blood. So the body can never, at any time, be the Ātman; that claim simply does not stand.

Close to the Sanskrit

Possessing the many states beginning with childhood, having its origin in semen and blood — therefore, selfhood never holds good of the body.