Verse 284

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। ॥ २८४ ॥

In plain words

Your mortality is a projection born of delusion, and from it arise birth, death, and all your grief—none of which are real. Tell me: when you wake from sleep, do you still take the joys and sorrows you felt in the dream to be real?

Close to the Sanskrit

Mortality is imagined in you through delusion; hence births and other states and even sorrow are generated by that alone, not in reality; that is false. Tell me, has happiness and sorrow attained under the sway of sleep-delusion ever been viewed by you as real upon the dawn of awakening?