Verse 12

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In plain words

Some days he abides in mauna — silence. Some days he is deep in argument, enjoying every turn of it. Some days a laugh breaks out of him from his own ānanda and the words are simply gone. Some days he does nothing but watch people going about their business. Through all of it, the sage, his darkness cut away by the Guru's dīkṣā, does not fall into vyāmoha.

Close to the Sanskrit

Sometimes abiding in mauna, and at other times also absorbed in the debating of words; sometimes, his own ānanda seized by an outburst of laughter, with speech abandoned; sometimes intent on observing the everyday dealings of people — the sage, whose darkness has been destroyed by the Guru's dīkṣā, does not fall into vyāmoha.