सत इदमुत्थितं सदिति चेन्ननु तर्कहतं व्यभिचरति क्व च क्व च मृषा न तथोभययुक् । व्यवहृतये विकल्प इषितोऽन्धपरम्परया भ्रमयति भारती त उरुवृत्तिभिरुक्थजडान् ॥ ३६ ॥
sata idaṁ utthitaṁ sad iti cen nanu tarka-hataṁ vyabhicarati kva ca kva ca mṛṣā na tathobhaya-yuk vyavahṛtaye vikalpa iṣito ’ndha-paramparayā bhramayati bhāratī ta uru-vṛttibhir uktha-jaḍān
- sataḥ
- from that which is permanent
- idam
- this (universe)
- utthitam
- arisen
- sat
- permanent
- iti
- thus
- cet
- if (someone proposes)
- nanu
- certainly
- tarka
- by logical contradiction
- hatam
- refuted
- vyabhicarati
- it is inconsistent
- kva ca
- in some cases
- kva ca
- in other cases
- mṛṣā
- illusion
- na
- not
- tathā
- so
- ubhaya
- of both (the real and illusion)
- yuk
- the conjunction
- vyavahṛtaye
- for the sake of ordinary affairs
- vikalpaḥ
- an imaginary situation
- iṣitaḥ
- desired
- andha
- of blind men
- paramparayā
- by a succession
- bhramayati
- bewilder
- bhāratī
- the words of wisdom
- te
- Your
- uru
- numerous
- vṛttibhiḥ
- with their semantic functions
- uktha
- by ritual utterances
- jaḍān
- dulled
It may be proposed that this world is permanently real because it is generated from the permanent reality, but such an argument is subject to logical refutation. Sometimes, indeed, the apparent nondifference of a cause and its effect fails to prove true, and at other times the product of something real is illusory. Furthermore, this world cannot be permanently real, for it partakes of the natures of not only the absolute reality but also the illusion disguising that reality. Actually, the visible forms of this world are just an imaginary arrangement resorted to by a succession of ignorant persons in order to facilitate their material affairs. With their various meanings and implications, the learned words of Your Vedas bewilder all persons whose minds have been dulled by hearing the incantations of sacrificial rituals.