बन्धो जन्मात्ययात्मा यदि न पुनरभूत्तर्हि मोक्षोऽपि नासी -द्यद्वद्रात्रिर्दिनं वा न भवति तरणौ किं तु दृग्दोष एषः ।अप्राणं शुद्धमेकं समभवदथ तन्मायया कर्तृसन्ज्ञंतस्मादन्यच्च नासीत्परिवृतमजया जीवभूतं तदेव ॥ २४ ॥
In plain words
Bondage made of birth and death never came into being, and neither did a separate Mokṣa that would end it. Day and night never touch the sun; the division lies in the eye that sees. The One is pure and breathless. Through Māyā, its power of appearance, it is named the doer; veiled by that unborn power, the same One appears as Jīva, the individual being. Nothing stands apart from it.
Close to the Sanskrit
If bondage, whose nature is birth and death, never truly arose, then Mokṣa—liberation—did not arise either. Night and day do not exist in the sun; they belong only to a defect of vision. The breathless, pure One alone was; through its Māyā, the power of appearance, it came to be called the doer. Nothing else existed. Enveloped by the unborn Māyā, that very One became the Jīva, the individual being.