Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 15, Verse 10

उत्क्रामन्तं स्थितं वापि भुञ्जानं वा गुणान्वितम् । विमूढा नानुपश्यन्ति पश्यन्ति ज्ञानचक्षुषः

utkrāmantaṃ sthitaṃ vāpi bhuñjānaṃ vā guṇānvitam | vimūḍhā nānupaśyanti paśyanti jñānacakṣuṣaḥ

Translation

Him who departs, stays and enjoys, who is conjoined with guṇas, the deluded perceive not; they see, who possess the eye of knowledge.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

utkrāmantam

departing

sthitam

staying

vā

or

api

also

bhuñjānam

enjoying

vā

or

guṇānvitam

by the qualities, accompanied

vimūḍhāḥ

the deluded

na

not

anupaśyanti

perceive

paśyanti

see

jñānacakṣuṣaḥ

wisdom, eyes, whose, they

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Him who thus dwells in the body, who leaves the body once acquired, who stays in the body, who perceives sound and other objects, who is always in association with guṇas (i.e., whom all dispositions of mind — such as pleasure, pain, delusion — invariably accompany), the deluded do not recognise. They do not see Him, though in this way He comes quite within the range of their vision, because they are deluded in various ways, their minds being forcibly attracted by the enjoyment of objects seen and unseen. Ah! such is human perversity. But those whose wisdom-eye has been opened by an authoritative source of knowledge, i.e., who possess the power of discrimination, do recognise Him.