Verse 23

Tap any word for its meaning.

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In plain words

The one who lays the traits of body and senses onto his own Self — falsely, with nothing to back it — and then claims doership and everything that follows from it as his own: he is what the word 'you' literally points to.

Close to the Sanskrit

He who, falsely superimposing upon his own Self the properties of body, senses and the rest, and claiming as his own doership and the like — he is the literal meaning of the word 'you'.