Verse 9

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। ॥ ९ ॥

In plain words

This body — the sheath called annamaya, the one assembled out of food — is not the Self. It is insentient, no more aware than a clay pot. And its absence can be seen: before it came into being, it was not there; after it goes, it is not there.

Close to the Sanskrit

This body, the sheath named 'made of food,' is not the Self — insentient, like a pot — because its non-existence also is seen before its origination and afterwards.