Verse 8

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। ॥ ८ ॥

In plain words

Food, breath, mind, intellect, bliss: five sheaths, each one nested inside the one before it. Sift them apart with viveka, and the Self takes up what was always its place — the light in which all five stand revealed.

Close to the Sanskrit

Of the five sheaths — food, prāṇa, mind-made, knowing, bliss — which occupy the interior of each one in turn, the Self, through discrimination, attains the state of being the light.