Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 3. The self-luminous Self: waking, dream, and the light of man
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
Born, he takes on evils
This very person, being born, taking on a body, becomes joined to evils. Departing, dying, he leaves those evils behind.
When this person is born and enters a body, he becomes mixed up with evils, the limitations and faults that come with embodiment. When he departs at death and leaves the body, he sheds those evils. The Self is thus only apparently bound to them; they come and go with the body, not with him.
In the commentaries
Sankara takes birth and death here as nothing but the assuming and shedding of a body: the "evils" belong to embodiment and not to the Self, which shows that the self's connection with sin and limitation is adventitious, leaving its own nature untouched.