प्रकृतेरेवमात्मानमविविच्याबुध: पुमान् । तत्त्वेन स्पर्शसम्मूढ: संसारं प्रतिपद्यते ॥ ५१ ॥
prakṛter evam ātmānam avivicyābudhaḥ pumān tattvena sparśa-sammūḍhaḥ saṁsāraṁ pratipadyate
- prakṛteḥ
- from material nature
- evam
- in this way
- ātmānam
- the self
- avivicya
- failing to distinguish
- abudhaḥ
- the unintelligent
- pumān
- person
- tattvena
- because of thinking (material things) to be real
- sparśa
- by material contact
- sammūḍhaḥ
- completely bewildered
- saṁsāram
- the cycle of material existence
- pratipadyate
- attains
An unintelligent man, failing to distinguish himself from material nature, thinks nature to be real. By contact with it he becomes completely bewildered and enters into the cycle of material existence.