32-33. The illusion that the physical body or the like is the Self arises from (avidya which is the cause of) samsara. "The Lord has entered within" (Taittiriya-Aranyaka

[paragraph continues] 3-11); thus the Sruti has taught with a view to liberation.

33-34 Thus, this mighty Maya deludes even these disputants; for, once Sadasiva is seen, it immediately vanishes away.

34-35. To Him who has neither body, nor sense-organs, nor vital airs, whose nature is inaccessible to all organs of perception, who is Consciousness and Bliss in essence, to Him in the Effulgent Form Facing the South, be this bow!

35-36. Thus ends the fifth chapter, in brief, in the work called Manasollasa which expounds the meaning of the Hymn to the Blessed Dakshinamurti.

Footnotes

^101:* One of the manuscripts of Manasollasa consulted for this edition gives the text in the logical order of the two theories. Evidently the gloss-writer whose exposition of the Vartika I followed in my translation and notes had not this reading before him.