Poem 457

In plain words

Born in Māyā and grown up in Māyā, the dull-witted cannot know Māyā. Living is Māyā, being born is Māyā, worldly life is Māyā, death is Māyā, the bonds of birth are Māyā: do you not know this well? Knowing it a life of Māyā, why fall into Māyā?