Question and answer 30
In plain words
Disciple: The jñānī sees things other than the Self as false and sees their faults, so no attachment arises in him. How then can he engage in anything at all?
Guru: The jñānī sees the body as false, yet through prārabdha he still takes alms and whatever else the body needs. People know a magic show is an illusion, yet they still watch it. A sick man sees that a food is bad for him, yet he still eats what he is forbidden. In the same way the jñānī engages through prārabdha.
Word for word
Disciple: For the jñānī, while no attachment arises by the sense of falsity and the seeing of defects in things not the Self, how can there be engagement?
Guru: As in alms and the like, which serve the body, for the jñānī by prārabdha, though there is the sense of falsity in the body; as in people watching it though knowing the art of magic to be false; as in a sick man taking forbidden food though knowing it harmful by seeing its defects: by prārabdha there can be engagement.