शोकमोहौ सुखं दु:खं देहापत्तिश्च मायया । स्वप्नो यथात्मन: ख्याति: संसृतिर्न तु वास्तवी ॥ २ ॥
śoka-mohau sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ dehāpattiś ca māyayā svapno yathātmanaḥ khyātiḥ saṁsṛtir na tu vāstavī
- śoka
- lamentation
- mohau
- and illusion
- sukham
- happiness
- duḥkham
- distress
- deha-āpattiḥ
- accepting a material body
- ca
- also
- māyayā
- by the influence of māyā
- svapnaḥ
- a dream
- yathā
- just as
- ātmanaḥ
- of the intelligence
- khyātiḥ
- merely an idea
- saṁsṛtiḥ
- material existence
- na
- is not
- tu
- indeed
- vāstavī
- real
Just as a dream is merely a creation of one’s intelligence but has no actual substance, similarly, material lamentation, illusion, happiness, distress and the acceptance of the material body under the influence of māyā are all creations of My illusory energy. In other words, material existence has no essential reality.