तैजसे निद्रयापन्ने पिण्डस्थो नष्टचेतन: । मायां प्राप्नोति मृत्युं वा तद्वन्नानार्थदृक् पुमान् ॥ ३ ॥
taijase nidrayāpanne piṇḍa-stho naṣṭa-cetanaḥ māyāṁ prāpnoti mṛtyuṁ vā tadvan nānārtha-dṛk pumān
- taijase
- when the senses, which are the products of false ego in the mode of passion
- nidrayā
- by sleep
- āpanne
- are overcome
- piṇḍa
- in the shell of the material body
- sthaḥ
- (the soul) who is situated
- naṣṭa-cetanaḥ
- having lost his consciousness
- māyām
- the illusion of dreaming
- prāpnoti
- he experiences
- mṛtyum
- the deathlike condition of deep sleep
- vā
- or
- tadvat
- in the same way
- nānā-artha
- in terms of material varieties
- dṛk
- who sees
- pumān
- a person
Just as the embodied spirit soul loses external consciousness when his senses are overcome by the illusion of dreaming or the deathlike state of deep sleep, so a person experiencing material duality must encounter illusion and death.