The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Aparokṣānubhūtiḥ

Verse 62

यथैव शून्ये वेतालो गन्धर्वाणां पुरं यथा ।यथाकाशे द्विचन्द्रत्वं तद्वत्सत्ये जगत्स्थितिः ॥ ६२ ॥

In plain words

A ghost in an empty room. A city of the gandharvas shimmering where no city stands. Two moons in a sky that holds one. That is exactly how this world stands in the Real.

Close to the Sanskrit

Just as a ghost in an empty place, and as the city of the gandharvas, and just as two-moon-ness in the sky — in that same way is the world's standing in the Real.