In plain words
Discernment separates the five sheaths as pounding frees rice from its husk. The sages recognize what remains and know it directly in the heart. That endless Reality, always established in itself—is it not you yourself?
Word for word
Separating by discernment the five sheaths called the husk, with the pounding that is reasoning, the sages see and experience in the heart that which is like the rice grain remaining afterwards. Are you yourself not that endless, ever-established Reality?