Verse 63

⁵⁷At the beginning of people and at their end he is what is; he is outside and inside, higher and lower, knowing and what is known, the word and what the word says, darkness and light; and he is this, himself. ⁵⁸An appearance, even after it has been set aside, is still remembered as though it were a real thing. So it is with what comes through the senses, which is hard to make out and is put together out of things. ⁵⁹Of these things here, earth and the rest, there is not so much as a shadow. There is no gathering of them, and no change either, nothing apart and nothing joined: it is false. ⁶⁰The elements are wholes made of parts, and without the subtle elements as their parts they would not be; and if the whole is unreal, then in the end the part is unreal too.

⁶¹So long as a thing is imagined, one is taken for another; as waking and sleeping are taken for real inside a dream, so it is with what is enjoined and what is forbidden. ⁶²Living out for himself the not-two of being, the not-two of action and the not-two of substance, the sage here shakes off the three dreams by what he has known in himself. ⁶³Seeing that the thing which is the effect and the thing which is the cause are one, as cloth and thread are one, since the distinction is no real thing: that is called the not-two of being.