tat kenaitan mahābhāga yan moho jñāninor api mamāsya ca bhavaty eṣā vivekāndhasya mūḍhatā 1.45 Venerated Sage, how is it that we who should know better can be so deluded? Ours is the perplexity of those who are blind to right understanding.” ṛṣir uvāca 1.46 The seer said: jñānam asti samastasya jantor viṣayagocare viṣayās ca mahābhāga yānti caivaṁ pṛthak pṛthak 1.47 “Illustrious king, through the perceptions of the senses, every living being has knowledge of the manifest universe. The objects of sense-perception reveal themselves in various ways. divāndhāḥ prāṇinaḥ kecid rātrāv andhās tathāpare kecid divā tathā rātrau prāṇinas tulyadṛṣṭayaḥ 1.48 Some creatures are blind by day, and others are blind by night. Some creatures see equally by day and night. jñānino manujāḥ satyaṁ kintu te na hi kevalam yato hi jñāninaḥ sarve paśupakṣimṛgādayaḥ 1.49 Truly, humans are endowed with the power of perception, but they are not alone, for cattle, birds, wild animals, and all other living creatures also perceive. jñānaṁ ca tan manusyāṇāṁ yat teṣāṁ mṛgapakṣiṇām manuṣyāṇāṁ ca yat teṣāṁ tulyam anyat tathobhayoḥ 1.50 That awareness which humans have, birds and beasts possess also; and their awareness, humans have, too. In other ways also the two are similar. jñāne ’pi sati paśyaitān patangāñ chāvacañcusu kaṇamokṣād ṛtān mohāt pīḍyamānān api kṣudhā 1.51 Look at these birds. Though feeling the pangs of hunger, out of delusion they still busy themselves by dropping food into the beaks of their young. mānuṣā manujavyāghra sābhilāṣāḥ sutān prati lobhāt pratyupakārāya nanv etān kiṁ na paśyasi 1.52 Illustrious sir, humans long for offspring, surely expecting gratitude in return. Do you not see this? tathāpi mamatāvarte mohagarte nipātitāḥ mahāmāyāprabhāveṇa samsārasthitikāriṇā 1.53 In this very manner they are hurled into the whirlpool of attachment, the pit of delusion, by the power of Mahāmāyā, Who produces the continuing cycle of this transitory world.
tat kenaitan mahābhāga yan moho jñāninor api
mamāsya ca bhavaty eṣā vivekāndhasya mūḍhatā
1.45 Venerated Sage, how is it that we who should know better can be so deluded? Ours is the perplexity of those who are blind to right understanding.”
ṛṣir uvāca
1.46 The seer said:
jñānam asti samastasya jantor viṣayagocare
viṣayās ca mahābhāga yānti caivaṁ pṛthak pṛthak
1.47 “Illustrious king, through the perceptions of the senses, every living being has knowledge of the manifest universe. The objects of sense-perception reveal themselves in various ways.
divāndhāḥ prāṇinaḥ kecid rātrāv andhās tathāpare
kecid divā tathā rātrau prāṇinas tulyadṛṣṭayaḥ
1.48 Some creatures are blind by day, and others are blind by night. Some creatures see equally by day and night.
jñānino manujāḥ satyaṁ kintu te na hi kevalam
yato hi jñāninaḥ sarve paśupakṣimṛgādayaḥ
1.49 Truly, humans are endowed with the power of perception, but they are not alone, for cattle, birds, wild animals, and all other living creatures also perceive.
jñānaṁ ca tan manusyāṇāṁ yat teṣāṁ mṛgapakṣiṇām
manuṣyāṇāṁ ca yat teṣāṁ tulyam anyat tathobhayoḥ
1.50 That awareness which humans have, birds and beasts possess also; and their awareness, humans have, too. In other ways also the two are similar.
jñāne ’pi sati paśyaitān patangāñ chāvacañcusu
kaṇamokṣād ṛtān mohāt pīḍyamānān api kṣudhā
1.51 Look at these birds. Though feeling the pangs of hunger, out of delusion they still busy themselves by dropping food into the beaks of their young.
mānuṣā manujavyāghra sābhilāṣāḥ sutān prati
lobhāt pratyupakārāya nanv etān kiṁ na paśyasi
1.52 Illustrious sir, humans long for offspring, surely expecting gratitude in return. Do you not see this?
tathāpi mamatāvarte mohagarte nipātitāḥ
mahāmāyāprabhāveṇa samsārasthitikāriṇā
1.53 In this very manner they are hurled into the whirlpool of attachment, the pit of delusion, by the power of Mahāmāyā, Who produces the continuing cycle of this transitory world.