Verse 33

In plain words

Pleasure and pain are known as outside. For this yogin: Pleasure and pain, born of contact with what is known, are considered, that is, known, as if outside, like blue and the rest, appearing as "this"; not, as for ordinary people, by touching the "I". For in the way of the meaning of the sūtra already given, "The universe is the outflow of his own powers", everything shines for him as covered by I-ness, and not pleasure, pain and the rest alone, held apart. That is the point of this. For how can a yogin, in whom the state of being the knower as puryaṣṭaka has been stilled, be touched by pleasure and pain? So it is said in the Pratyabhijñāsūtravimarśinī: "For those who have passed beyond the level of the grasper and reached the state of the real knower, even in the direct experience of pleasure and pain brought about by their own causes, there is no pleasure, pain and the rest for them; or else pleasure and the rest do not arise at all, for lack of a cause; rather, then there would be the manifestation of innate bliss." That is why it is set out in the Spanda: "Where there is no pain, no pleasure, no grasped and no grasper, and no state of delusion either: that exists in the highest sense."