Verse 201

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US-P15.005ab ।US-P15.005cd ॥

In plain words

Only when caste and the like are taken as belonging to oneself do they give ritual injunctions their occasion, just as a corpse does when it is taken as one’s own relative. These attributes do not belong to the Self; otherwise the Self would become the non-Self.

Close to the Sanskrit

Caste and the like occasion injunctions only when regarded as belonging to oneself, as a corpse does. The Self therefore does not possess them; otherwise it would be the non-Self.