मृगतृष्णां यथा बाला मन्यन्त उदकाशयम् । एवं वैकारिकीं मायामयुक्ता वस्तु चक्षते ॥ ११ ॥
mṛga-tṛṣṇāṁ yathā bālā manyanta udakāśayam evaṁ vaikārikīṁ māyām ayuktā vastu cakṣate
- mṛga-tṛṣṇām
- a mirage
- yathā
- as
- bālāḥ
- men of childish intelligence
- manyante
- consider
- udaka
- of water
- āśayam
- a reservoir
- evam
- in the same way
- vaikārikīm
- subject to transformations
- māyām
- the material illusion
- ayuktāḥ
- those who lack discrimination
- vastu
- substance
- cakṣate
- see as
Just as men of childish intelligence consider a mirage in the desert to be a pond of water, so those who are irrational look upon the illusory transformations of Māyā as substantial.