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220 The guru next proceeds to answer the question why the witness of all states, the ātman cannot be thus distinctly and clearly known and proceeds to show with an example that delusion is the cause.
घटोदके बिबितमबिबिम आलोक्यमढो रविमेव मन्यते। तथा चिदाभासमुपाधिसंस्थं
भ्रान्त्याहमित्येव जडोभिमन्यते ॥२२०॥ ghatodake bimbitamarkabimbam
alokya mūdho ravimeva manyate tathā cidābhāsamupādhisamstham
bhrāntyähamityeva jaờobhimanyate 11
The fool, looking at the reflection of the sun in the water contained in a jar, thinks that it is the sun itself. Even so, the stupid man, by his delusion, imagines that the reflection of the cit in the" upādhi is his ātman.
The fool looking at the reflection of the sun in the water thinks that it is the sun itself. He has not the knowledge that the sun is different and that this is its reflection. So too, the reflection of the cit in the upādhis like buddhi etc., is thought to be the ātman due to aviveka i.e., it is understood differently from its nature.
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But really, घटं जलं तद्गतमर्कबिम्ब विहाय सर्व दिवि वीक्ष्यतेऽर्कः। तटस्थितस्तत्त्रितयावभासकः स्वयंप्रकाशो विदुषो यथा तथा ॥२२१॥ ghatam jalam tadgatamarkabimbam
vihāya sarvam divi vikşyate'rkah 1 tatasthitaḥ tattritayāvabhāsakah
svayamprakāśo viduso yathā tathā 11
Apart from the pot, the water and the sun's form in it, the real sun is seen by the learned in the sky indifferent to these three and illumining them. So too here.
The sun is reflected in the water contained in a pot. There are three things here: the pot, the water in the pot, and the re
