एतद्द्वारो हि संसारो गुणकर्मनिबन्धन: । अज्ञानमूलोऽपार्थोऽपि पुंस: स्वप्न इवार्प्यते ॥ २७ ॥
etad dvaro hi samsaro guna-karma-nibandhanah ajnana-mulo ’partho ’pi pumsah svapna ivarpyate
- etat
- this
- dvarah
- whose door
- hi
- indeed
- samsarah
- material existence, in which one suffers threefold miseries
- guna-karma-nibandhanah
- captivation by the three modes of material nature
- ajnana-mulah
- whose root is ignorance
- aparthah
- without factual meaning
- api
- even
- pumsah
- of the living entity
- svapnah
- a dream
- iva
- like
- arpyate
- is placed.
Through polluted intelligence one is subjected to the modes of nature, and thus one is conditioned by material existence. Like a dreaming state in which one falsely suffers, material existence, which is due to ignorance, must be considered unwanted and temporary.