अन्तर्भवेऽनन्त भवन्तमेव ह्यतत्त्यजन्तो मृगयन्ति सन्त: । असन्तमप्यन्त्यहिमन्तरेण सन्तं गुणं तं किमु यन्ति सन्त: ॥ २८ ॥
antar-bhave ’nanta bhavantam eva hy atat tyajanto mṛgayanti santaḥ asantam apy anty ahim antareṇa santaṁ guṇaṁ taṁ kim u yanti santaḥ
- antaḥ-bhave
- within the body
- ananta
- O unlimited Lord
- bhavantam
- Yourself
- eva
- indeed
- hi
- certainly
- atat
- everything separate from You
- tyajantaḥ
- rejecting
- mṛgayanti
- search out
- santaḥ
- the saintly devotees
- asantam
- unreal
- api
- even
- anti
- present nearby
- ahim
- (the illusion of) a snake
- antareṇa
- without (negating)
- santam
- real
- guṇam
- the rope
- tam
- that
- kim u
- whether
- yanti
- appreciate
- santaḥ
- persons who are spiritually situated
O unlimited Lord, the saintly devotees seek You out within their own bodies by rejecting everything separate from You. Indeed, how can discriminating persons appreciate the real nature of a rope lying before them until they refute the illusion that it is a snake?