Passage 19

In English

Man is caught in the coils of (illusion). Death, pain and pleasure are all manifestations of this illusion. In fact, has no form of its own; it makes you think the existent as non-existent and non-existent as existent. When we see a rope in darkness, we mistake it for a snake. The rope reveals itself as a rope when light is focused on it. It is the darkness which is the cause of ignorance. Neither the snake nor the rope have come and gone. It is only your that has come and gone. The principle of neither comes nor goes. It is not possible to realise the as long as you are steeped in . One has to become to be free from .