सुप्तस्य विषयालोको ध्यायतो वा मनोरथ: । नानात्मकत्वाद् विफलस्तथा भेदात्मधीर्गुणै: ॥ ३ ॥
suptasya viṣayāloko dhyāyato vā manorathaḥ nānātmakatvād viphalas tathā bhedātma-dhīr guṇaiḥ
- suptasya
- of one who is sleeping
- viṣaya
- sense gratification
- ālokaḥ
- seeing
- dhyāyataḥ
- of one who is meditating
- vā
- or
- manaḥ-rathaḥ
- merely a creation of the mind
- nānā
- a large variety
- ātmakatvāt
- due to having the nature of
- viphalaḥ
- bereft of the real perfection
- tathā
- in that way
- bheda-ātma
- in that which is separately constituted
- dhīḥ
- intelligence
- guṇaiḥ
- by the material senses
One who is sleeping may see many objects of sense gratification in a dream, but such pleasurable things are merely creations of the mind and are thus ultimately useless. Similarly, the living entity who is asleep to his spiritual identity also sees many sense objects, but these innumerable objects of temporary gratification are creations of the Lord’s illusory potency and have no permanent existence. One who meditates upon them, impelled by the senses, uselessly engages his intelligence.