यथाम्भसा प्रचलता तरवोऽपि चला इव । चक्षुषा भ्राम्यमाणेन दृश्यते भ्रमतीव भू: ॥ ५४ ॥ यथा मनोरथधियो विषयानुभवो मृषा । स्वप्नदृष्टाश्च दाशार्ह तथा संसार आत्मन: ॥ ५५ ॥
yathāmbhasā pracalatā taravo ’pi calā iva cakṣuṣā bhrāmyamāṇena dṛśyate bhramatīva bhūḥ yathā manoratha-dhiyo viṣayānubhavo mṛṣā svapna-dṛṣṭāś ca dāśārha tathā saṁsāra ātmanaḥ
- yathā
- as
- ambhasā
- by water
- pracalatā
- moving, agitated
- taravaḥ
- trees
- api
- indeed
- calāḥ
- moving
- iva
- as if
- cakṣuṣā
- by the eyes
- bhrāmyamāṇena
- which are being turned about
- dṛśyate
- appears
- bhramatī
- moving
- iva
- as if
- bhūḥ
- the earth
- yathā
- as
- manaḥ-ratha
- of a mental fantasy
- dhiyaḥ
- the ideas
- viṣaya
- of sense gratification
- anubhavaḥ
- the experience
- mṛṣā
- false
- svapna-dṛṣṭāḥ
- things seen in a dream
- ca
- and
- dāśārha
- O descendant of Daśārha
- tathā
- thus
- saṁsāraḥ
- the material life
- ātmanaḥ
- of the soul
The soul’s material life, his experience of sense gratification, is actually false, O descendant of Daśārha, just like trees’ appearance of quivering when the trees are reflected in agitated water, or like the earth’s appearance of spinning due to one’s spinning his eyes around, or like the world of a fantasy or dream.