स्वीकुर्वन्व्याघ्रवेषं स्वजठरभृतये भीषयन्यश्च मुग्धा -न्मत्वा व्याघ्रोऽहमित्थं स नरपशुमुखान्बाधते किं नु सत्त्वान् ।मत्वा स्त्रीवेषधारी स्त्र्यहमिति कुरुते कि नटो भर्तुरिच्छांतद्वच्छारीर आत्मा पृथगनुभवतो देहतो यत्स साक्षी ॥ ७ ॥
In plain words
A performer may wear a tiger skin to earn his food and frighten the gullible, yet does he truly become a tiger and maul people and cattle? A male actor may dress as a woman, but does that make him a wife who can answer a husband's desire? Just so, Ātma—the witnessing Self within the body—remains distinct from the costume of the body.
Close to the Sanskrit
A man adopts a tiger's guise to fill his belly and frightens simple people; but, thinking ‘I am a tiger,’ does he truly attack human beings, cattle and other creatures? Does an actor wearing a woman's costume, thinking ‘I am a woman,’ fulfill a husband's desire? In the same way, the embodied Ātma—the Self—is distinct from the body, for it is the witness experienced apart from it.