अन्वीक्षेत विशुद्धात्मा देहिनां विषयात्मनाम् । गुणेषु तत्त्वध्यानेन सर्वारम्भविपर्ययम् ॥ २ ॥
anvīkṣeta viśuddhātmā dehināṁ viṣayātmanām guṇeṣu tattva-dhyānena sarvārambha-viparyayam
- anvīkṣeta
- one should see
- viśuddha
- purified
- ātmā
- soul
- dehinām
- of the embodied beings
- viṣaya-ātmanām
- of those who are dedicated to sense gratification
- guṇeṣu
- in the material objects of pleasure
- tattva
- as truth
- dhyānena
- by conceiving
- sarva
- of all
- ārambha
- endeavors
- viparyayam
- the inevitable failure
A purified soul should see that because the conditioned souls who are dedicated to sense gratification have falsely accepted the objects of sense pleasure as truth, all of their endeavors are doomed to failure.