Sanskrit: अतस्मिंस्तद्बुद्धिः प्रभवति विमूढस्य तमसा विवेकाभावाद्वै स्फुरति भुजगे रज्जुधिषणा । ोऽनर्थव्रातो निपतति समादातुरधिकः ततो योऽसद्ग्राहः स हि भवति बन्धः शृणु सखे 
English:  One who is overpowered by ignorance mistakes a thing for what it is not; It is the absence of discrimination that causes one to mistake a snake for a rope, and great dangers overtake him when he seizes it through that wrong notion. Hence, listen, my friend, it is the mistaking of transitory things as real that constitutes bondage.