। ॥ १८८ ॥
In plain words
This jīva has no beginning in time. 'I' is simply what it takes itself to be, and it carries the whole weight of worldly life on its shoulders. Driven by impressions laid down long ago, it acts — good deeds and bad — and then lives out whatever those deeds bring back to it.
Close to the Sanskrit
This jīva, beginningless in time, whose nature is “I,” the bearer of all worldly activity, driven by impressions accumulated in succession, performs meritorious and non-meritorious actions; and their fruits...