Text 5] The Behavior of a Perfect Person 89

TEXT 5

Satan: Tara TTT |
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supti-prabodhayoh sandhav
atmano gatim atma-drk

pasyan bandham ca moksarh ca
mayda-métram na vastutah

supti—in the state of unconsciousness; prabodhayoh—and in the state
of consciousness; sandhau—in the state of marginal existence;
dtmanah—of oneself; gatim—the movement; atma-drk—one who can
actually see the self; pasyan—always trying to see or understand;
bandham—the conditional state of life; ca—and; moksam—the liber-
ated state of life; ca—also; ma@yd-matram—only illusion; na—not;
vastutah—in fact.

TRANSLATION

During unconsciousness and consciousness, and between the
two, he should try to understand the self and be fully situated in
the self. In this way, he should realize that the conditional and
liberated stages of life are only illusory and not actually factual.
With such a higher understanding, he should see only the Ab-
solute Truth pervading everything.

PURPORT

The unconscious state is nothing but ignorance, darkness or material
existence, and in the conscious state one is awake. The marginal state,
between consciousness and unconsciousness, has no permanent exis-
tence. Therefore one who is advanced in understanding the self should
understand that unconsciousness and consciousness are but illusions, for
they fundamentally do not exist. Only the Supreme Absolute Truth ex-
ists. As confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita (9.4):

maya tatam idam sarvarn
jagad avyakta-mirtina
