जलं तदुद्भवैश्छन्नं हित्वाज्ञो जलकाम्यया । मृगतृष्णामुपाधावेत्तथान्यत्रार्थदृक् स्वत: ॥ २९ ॥
jalam tad-udbhavais channam hitvajno jala-kamyaya mrgatrsnam upadhavet tathanyatrartha-drk svatah
- jalam
- water
- tat-udbhavaih
- by grass grown from that water
- channam
- covered
- hitva
- giving up
- ajnah
- a foolish animal
- jala-kamyaya
- desiring to drink water
- mrgatrsnam
- a mirage
- upadhavet
- runs after
- tatha
- similarly
- anyatra
- somewhere else
- artha-drk
- self-interested
- svatah
- in himself.
Just as a deer, because of ignorance, cannot see the water within a well covered by grass, but runs after water elsewhere, the living entity covered by the material body does not see the happiness within himself, but runs after happiness in the material world.