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एवं पृष्टः प्राह भगवान् सनत्सुजातः— केचित् पुनरविद्याधिरूढाः परमार्थतो मृत्युसद्भावं मन्यमानाः वेदोक्तेन कर्मणा अमृत्युः अमृतं भवतीति मत्वा अमृत्यवे अमृतत्वप्राप्तये वेदोक्तं कर्माचरन्ति; तथा अन्ये विषयविषान्धाः विषयव्यतिरेकेण निर्विषयं मोक्षममन्यमानाः कर्मणैव अमृत्युम् अमरणत्वं देवादिभावं वर्णयन्ति; तत्रैव च रागिगीतं श्लोकमुदाहरन्ति— ‘अपि वृन्दावने शून्यं शृगालत्वं स इच्छतु ।न तु निर्विषयं मोक्षं कदाचिदपि गौतम’ इति ।तथैव च परमात्मव्यतिरेकेण द्वितीयमपश्यन्तो ज्ञानकर्माभ्याममृतत्वं वर्णयन्ति ।
In plain words
Asked thus, the venerable Sanatsujata replied: Some people, rooted in ignorance and believing death to be real, perform Vedic rituals to conquer death and secure immortality. Others, blinded by sensory desires and unable to imagine happiness apart from objects, claim that action alone brings divine status and freedom from mortality. In support of this, the passionate sing: 'Let a man become a jackal in a deserted Vrindavana, O Gautama, but never let him desire an objectless liberation!' Similarly, others who perceive a reality separate from the Supreme Self maintain that immortality is attained through a combination of knowledge and action.
Close to the Sanskrit
Thus asked, the venerable Sanatsujata spoke: Some, mounted on ignorance, considering the real existence of death, thinking that non-death and the immortal become so through Vedic action, perform Vedic action for non-death and the attainment of immortality; similarly others, blinded by the poison of sense-objects, not considering liberation without sense-objects, describe non-death, freedom from dying, and divine status through action alone; right there they cite a song sung by a passionate person: 'Even let him desire a deserted jackal-hood in Vrindavana, but never liberation devoid of objects, O Gautama.' And similarly others, not seeing a second apart from the Supreme Self, describe immortality through knowledge and action.