Vedantasara - Verse 219

Sanskrit

अयं तु व्युत्थानसमये मांसशोणितमूत्रपुरीषादिभाजनेन शरीरेणान्ध्यमान्द्यापटुत्वादिभाजनेनेन्द्रियग्रामेणाशना- पिपासाशोकमोहादिभाजनेनान्तःकरणेन च पूर्वपूर्ववासनया क्रियमाणानि कर्माणि भुज्यमानानि ज्ञानाविरुद्धारब्धफलानि च पश्यन्नपि बाधितत्वात्परमार्थतो न पश्यते । यथेन्द्रजालमिति ज्ञानवांस्तदिन्द्रजालं पश्यन्नपि परमार्थमिदमिति न पश्यति

Swami Nikhilananda's Translation

Such a liberated man, while he is not in Samadhi, sees actions not opposed to knowledge taking place under the momentum of past impressions – actions that have already begun to bear fruit, which he experiences through the physical body composed of flesh, blood and other things; through the sense-organs affected by blindness, weakness, incapacity etc., and through his mind subject to hunger, thirst, grief, delusion, etc., — yet he does not consider them as real, for he has already known their nothingness. As a man who is conscious that a magical performance is being given, even though he sees it, does not consider it as real.

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