Bhāṣya
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In plain words
In this world, every living creature naturally cries out: 'May I be happy, may I never know sorrow.' Yet a rare soul, rich in spiritual merit, perceives that every pleasure born of the senses is inextricably bound to pain and bound to fade. Recognizing this, he turns away from worldly existence and its instruments with a deep and steady dispassion. He strives earnestly for release from saṃsāra. And since this bondage springs entirely from a failure to know the Self in its true nature, it is undone by the dawn of Self-knowledge alone. To such a seeker, the teacher now imparts that wisdom—
Close to the Sanskrit
In this world indeed, for every creature, 'may happiness be mine, may sorrow not be mine' thus spontaneously the desire for happiness and the desire to avoid sorrow arise. Among them, some rare person endowed with exceptional spiritual merit, knowing that sensory pleasure is sorrow itself because it is inseparably bound up with inevitable sorrow and because of impermanence, through earnest endeavor becomes profoundly dispassionate toward saṃsāra along with its means. And the dispassionate one strives for the destruction of saṃsāra. And because saṃsāra is produced by the non-comprehension of the true nature of the Self, its cessation [comes] from knowledge of the Self; [therefore] the teacher imparts instruction on the knowledge of the Self toward him—