अहं त्वमित्यपार्था धीरज्ञानात्पुरुषस्य हि । स्वाप्नीवाभात्यतद्ध्यानाद्यया बन्धविपर्ययौ ॥ ४ ॥
aham tvam ity apartha dhir ajnanat purusasya hi svapnivabhaty atad-dhyanad yaya bandha-viparyayau
- aham
- I
- tvam
- you
- iti
- thus
- apartha
- misconceived
- dhih
- intelligence
- ajnanat
- from ignorance
- purusasya
- of a person
- hi
- certainly
- svapni
- a dream
- iva
- like
- abhati
- appears
- a-tat-dhyanat
- from the bodily concept of life
- yaya
- by which
- bandha
- bondage
- viparyayau
- and misery.
Misidentification of oneself and others as and yo on the basis of the bodily concept of life is a product of ignorance. This bodily concept is the cause of repeated birth and death, and it makes us go on continuously in material existence.