US-P06.006ab ।US-P06.006cd ॥
In plain words
In the thought "I am this," it is the "this" that the wise let go of — never the ātman. What is left standing is "I am Brahman"; and the "I" is still spoken there only by the ordinary usage that calls a thing by what it used to be.
Close to the Sanskrit
In this — 'I (am) this' — the 'this'-portion is to be abandoned by the wise, not the Self; the remaining portion, 'I am Brahman', would be by way of the usage that names a thing from what it formerly was.