Blinded by sensual pleasure which he freely seeks and steeped in dark ignorance and folly which he mistakes for happiness, he thenceforth knows not himself. Like a wheel that is incessantly whirling, every creature, from ignorance, acts and desire, roves in various states in the world, wandering from one birth to another, ranging from Brahma to a blade of grass, an taking birth again and again now in water, now in earth and now in the sky.
ततो विहारैराहारैर्मोहितश्च यथेप्सया। महामोहे सुखे मग्नो नात्मानमवबुध्यते॥ एवं पतति संसारे तासु तास्विह योनिषु। अविद्याकर्मतृष्णाभिर्धाम्यमाणोऽथ चक्रवत्॥ ब्रह्मादिषु तृणान्तेषु भूतेषु परिवर्तते। जले भुवि तथाऽऽकाशे जायमानः पुनः पुनः॥