स एव पुनर्निद्राजगरगृहीतोऽन्धे तमसि मग्न: शून्यारण्य इव शेते नान्यत्किञ्चन वेद शव इवापविद्ध: ॥ २० ॥
sa eva punar nidrajagara-grhito ’ndhe tamasi magnah sunyaranya iva sete nanyat-kincana veda sava ivapaviddhah.
- sah
- that conditioned soul
- eva
- certainly
- punah
- again
- nidra-ajagara
- by the python of deep sleep
- grhitah
- being devoured
- andhe
- in deep darkness
- tamasi
- in ignorance
- magnah
- being absorbed
- sunya-aranye
- in the isolated forest
- iva
- like
- sete
- he lies down
- na
- not
- anyat
- else
- kincana
- anything
- veda
- knows
- savah
- a dead body
- iva
- like
- apaviddhah
- thrown away.
Sukadeva Gosvami continued speaking to Maharaja Pariksit: My dear King, sleep is exactly like a python. Those who wander in the forest of material life are always devoured by the python of sleep. Being bitten by this python, they always remain in the darkness of ignorance. They are like dead bodies thrown in a distant forest. Thus the conditioned souls cannot understand what is going on in life.