Verse 16

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US-P01.016ab ।US-P01.016cd ॥

In plain words

As long as the embodied creature naturally identifies with the body and senses without discrimination, an identification born of ignorance, for that long the injunctions of action remain binding.

Close to the Sanskrit

Living beings innately grasp the embodied one as undistinguished from the body and the rest; that grasping arises from nescience. So long as it persists, the injunction to action obtains.