US-P05.003ab ।US-P05.003cd ॥
In plain words
Sit in a moving boat and the hills along the bank slide backwards past you. The Self's wandering through birth and death is exactly that kind of motion — which is why scripture says only, "it seems to think."
Close to the Sanskrit
Just as, for one standing in a boat, there is a movement of the mountains in the reverse direction, so too is the saṃsāra of the Self; for the śruti says, 'it seems to think.'