Verse 33

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। ॥ ३३ ॥

In plain words

A man who enjoys a splendid kingdom in a dream does not grieve on waking that he has lost his realm, because he knows it was false. Nor is he stained by the sin of going to a forbidden woman or by other wrongs committed in a dream. In exactly the same way, if he were to forget every transaction of waking life as dreamlike…

Close to the Sanskrit

Experiencing a dream kingdom with all its wealth, upon reaching the waking state and realizing it to be false, one does not feel distress thinking 'I am fallen from a kingdom.' Committing in a dream sin headed by intercourse with forbidden women, one is not tainted by demerit on that account; similarly, if one were to consider all waking transactions as like a dream...